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BISHOP    OF    NEW   JERSEY, 


A    PRESENTMENT 


THE  ET.  EEV.  AVILLIAM  MEADE,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  Virginia, 

THE  KT.  EEV.  CHAELES  PETTIT  McILVAINE,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Ohio,  and 

THE  ET.  EEV.  GEOEGE  BUEGESS,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  Maine. 


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STANFORD    AND   SWORDS,    137,   BROADWAY. 

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THE  RT.  REV.  GEORGE  WASHINGTON  DOANE,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 

BISHOP   OF    NEW   JERSEY, 


A   PRESENTMENT 


THE  ET.  KEV.  WILLIAM  MEADE,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  Virginia, 

THE  KT.  EEV.  CHAKLES  PETTIT  McILVAINE,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Ohio,  and 

THE  ET.  EEV.  GEOEGE  BUEGESS,  D.  D,,  Bishop  of  Maine. 


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STANFORD    AND    SWORDS,    131,   BROADWAY. 

1853. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1853, 

By  Stanford  and  Swords, 

In  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  Southern  District  of  New  York. 


BiLLiN  &  Brothers,  Printere  and  Stereotypers,  20  North  William  street,  N.  Y. 


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Camden,  New  Jekset,  September  1,  1853.  ) 
10  o'cloch,  A.  M.  [ 

This  being  the  place,  the  day,  and  the  hour,  appointed  by  the 
Presiding  Bishop,  according  to  the  provisions  of  Canon  III.  of  1844, 
for  the  assembling  of  the  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  United  States,  to  form  a  Court  for  the  trial  of  the 
Et.  Bev.  George  Washington  Doane,  D.  D.,  LL.  D,  Bishop  of  the 
Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  on  a  Presentment  made  by  the  Et,  Eev. 
William  Meade,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Virginia,  the  Et. 
Eev.  Charles  Pettit  Mcllvaine,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Ohio, 
and  the  Et.  Eev.  George  Burgess,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Maine,  there  appeared,  the  Et.  Eev.  Thomas  Church  Brownell,  D.D., 
LL.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut,  and  Presiding  Bishop 
the  Et.  Eev.  James  Hervey  Otey,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Tennessee,  the  Et.  Eev.  Jackson  Kemper,  D.  D.,  Missionary  Bishop  of 
Wisconsin  and  Iowa,  the  Et.  Eev.  Samuel  Allen  McCoskry,  D.  D., 
D.  C.  L.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Michigan,  the  Et.  Eev.  Leonidas 
Polk,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Louisiana,  the  Et.  Eev. 
William  Eollinson  Whittingham,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Maryland,  the  Et.  Eev.  Stephen  Elliot,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese 
of  Georgia,  the  Et.  Eev.  Alfred  Lee,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Delaware,  the  Et.  Eev.  John  Johns,  D.  D.,  Assistant  Bishop  of  the 
Diocese  of  Virginia,,  the  Et.  Eev.  Manton  Eastburn,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of 
the  Diocese  of  Massachusetts,  the  Et.  Eev.  Carlton  Chase,  D.  D,, 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Hampshire,  the  Et.  Eev.  George 
Washington  Freeman,  D.  D.,  Missionary  Bishop  for  the  Southwest, 
the  Et.  Eev.  Alonzo  Potter,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Pennsylvania,  the  Et.  Eev.  George  Upfold,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the 

WITHDRAWN 


(    4     ) 

Diocese  of  Indiana,  tlie  Et.  Eev.  Francis  Huger  Eutledge,  D.  D., 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Florida,  the  Rt.  Eev.  John  Williams,  D.  D,, 
Assistant  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut,  and  the  Et.  Eev. 
Jonathan  Mayhew  Wainwright,  D.  D.,  D.  0.  L.,  Provisional  Bishop 
of  the  Diocese  of  New  York,  together  with  the  Bishops  making  the 
Presentment,  and  the  Bishop  Eespondent. 

The  meeting  was  opened  with  the  reading  of  the  Litany,  by  the 
Bishop  of  Michigan. 

On  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Michigan,  the  Bishop  of  Connecticut 
took  the  chair,  as  President  of  the  Court. 

On  motion  of  the  Assistant  Bishop  of  Virginia,  the  Assistant 
Bishop  of  Connecticut  was  requested  to  act  as  Secretary  -pro  tempore. 

The  President  of  the  Court  then  certified,  that  he  had  furnished 
every  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United 
States  with  a  copy  of  the  Presentment,  and  a  notification  of  the 
time  and  place  of  the  meeting  of  the  Court,  and  that  he  had 
received  notice  of  the  receipt  of  said  documents  from  all  the  Bishops, 
except  the  Bishop  of  Maryland,  who  was  then  absent  from  the 
country. 

Whereupon  the  roll  was  called,  and  the  Court  declared  to  be 
duly  organized. 

An  election  was  then  made  of  a  Permanent  Clerk;  which 
resulted  in  the  election  of  the  Provisional  Bishop  of  New  York,  as 
being  the  Junior  Bishop  of  the  House. 

The  following  document  was  read  by  the  Clerk,  but  no  order 
was  taken  thereon  : 

"  The-  undersigned,  on  that  great  Christian  principle  of  the  Com- 
mon Law,  which  asserts,  for  every  accused  person,  the  benefit  of  the 
vicinage,  and  refuses  to  change  the  venue,  unless  for  his  advantage; 
on  the  ground,  also,  of  its  distinct  recognition  on  the  recent  deci- 
sion, and  in  consideration  of  the  pressure  of  his  academical  duties, 
now  especially  urgent  as  the  commencement  at  Burlington  College 
is  near  at  baud,  respectfully,  yet  earnestly,  claims  the  immediate 
adjournment  of  the  Court  to  Burlington,  the  place  of  his  residence, 
and  of  the  transactions  charged  in  the  Presentment. 

"  G.  W.  DOANE, 

"  Bishop  of  New  Jersey. 
"Camden,  Ist September,  1853." 


(    5    ) 

On  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Georgia,  seconded  by  the  Bishop  of 
Tennessee,  the  Presentment  was  then  read,  as  follows  : 


To  the  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the   United 

States, 

A  Presentment  preferred  by  three  Bishops  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America  against  the 
Rt,  Rev.  George  Washington  Doane,  a  Bishop  of  said  Church, 
before  the  Bishops  of  the  said  Church, 

We  the  undersigned,  William  Meade,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Vu-ginia,  Charles  Pettit  Mcllvaine,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  said 
Church  in  tlie  Diocese  of  Ohio,  and  George  Burgess,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  said  Church  in 
the  Diocese  of  Maine,  do,  by  virtue  of  the  authority  reposed  iu  us  by  the  canons  of  the 
said  Church,  present  to  the  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America : 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  said  Church  in  the  Diocese  of 
New  Jersey,  is  guilty  of  crime  and  immorality  in  the  particulars  hereinafter  specified, — 

That  is  to  say, 

Specification  1st. 

In  this, 

That  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  at  divers  times  dm-ing  the  peiiod  m  which 
he  has  held  and  exercised  the  ofSce  of  Bishop  of  the  Church  aforesaid,  did,  in  the  State 
and  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  contract  numerous  and  large  debts,  beyond  his  means  of 
payment,  at  their  respective  dates,  and  which  at  their  respective  dates  he  had  no  reason- 
able and  definite  prospect  of  being  able  to  pay — the  said  debts  amounting,  on  or  about 
the  26th  of  Marcli,  1849,  to  not  less  than  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  eighty  thousand 
dollars,  and  probably  amounting  to  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  then  unpaid.  And  the 
whole  property,  real,  personal  and  mixed,  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  at  the 
date  last  aforesaid,  not  exceeding  in  value  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  thirty  thousand 
dollais,  of  which  property  the  real  estate  was  bound  by  Hens  to  the  extent  of  one  himdred 
thousand  dollars,  all  which  conduct  was  immoral  and  dishonest,  and  unbecoming  a  Bishop  of 
said  Church. 

Specification  2d. 

In  this. 

That  the  said  GeorgeWashiugton  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  for  the  purpose  of  ex- 
cusing the  contracting  of  the  debts  specified  in  the  1st  Specification,  in  a  certain  piinted 
pamphlet  published  by  him,  bearing  date  on  or  about  the  9th  day  of  February,  1852,  in 
the  State  of  New  Jersey,  entitled  "  The  Protest  and  Appeal  of  George  Washington 
Doane,  Bishop  of  New  Jersey,  as  aggrieved  by  the  Right  Reverend  William  Meade,  D.  D., 
the  Right  Reverend  George  Burgess,  D.  D.,  and  the  Right  Reverend  Charles  Pettit  Mc- 
llvaine, D.  D.,  and  his  reply  to  the  false,  calumnious  and  malignant  representations  of  Wil- 
liam Halsted,  Caleb  Perkins,  Peter  V.  Coppuck,  and  Bennington  Gill,  on  which  they  gi-ound 
their  uncannnical,  unchristian  and  inhuman  procedure  in  regard  to  him,"  did  untruly  state, 
"  The  undersigned"'  (meaning  the  said  George  Washington  Doane)  "  gave  up  his  property 


(     6    ) 

of  every  form,  to  meet,  so  far  as  it  might,  a  debt  not  personal  to  himself, — his  private 
income  being  much  more  than  equal  to  his  private  expenditure, — but  gTOwing  out  of  his 
venture  for  Christian  education  in  the  two  institutions  above  named,"  (meaning  St.  Mary's 
Hall,  a  school  for  females,  and  Burlington  College,  a  school  for  boys,)  "and  bis  self- 
disregard,  to  serve  the  Church,  to  adorn  and  dignify  his  native  State,  and  shed  the  light 
of  Christian  learning  on  the  land." 

Whereas,  in  truth  and  fact,  only  a  small  part  of  the  debt  in  the  said  passage  m.en- 
tioned,  not  amounting  to  one-half  thereof,  was  incurred  on  account  of  those  institutions 
above  named,  or  of  eitlier  of  them,  or  ever  enured  to  the  benefit  of  those  institutions,  or 
of  either  of  them  ;  and  as  well  the  said  school  of  St.  Mary's  Hall  as  Burlington  College, 
■were  tlie  private  property  and  adventures  of  the  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  and 
earned  on  for  his  private  benefit ;  and  even  if  said  debt  had  been  incurred  in  such  venture, 
yet  was  the  contracting  of  such  debt  beyond  the  means  of  the  said  George  "Washington 
Doane  to  pay,  immoral  and  unchristian. 

Specification  3d. 

In  this, 

That  the  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  liaving  at  divers  times 
during  the  years  184*7  and  1848,  procured  one  Michael  Hays,  iu  the  State  of  New  Jersey, 
to  indorse  divers  promissory  notes  for  more  than  ten  thousand  dollars,  for  the  accommo- 
dation of  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  said  notes  or  most  of  them  being  without  date, 
when  delivered  to  said  George  "Washington  Doane  to  be  discounted  at  his  convenience, 
did  afterwards  and  during  the  years  1848  and  1849,  when  said  notes  which  had  been 
discounted  for  said  George  "Washington  Doane  were  approaching  maturity,  procure  said 
Michael  Hays  to  endorse  other  notes  to  the  amount  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  under  the 
pretext  and  upon  the  assurance  that  said  last  mentioned  notes  should  be  applied  and  used 
for  the  pui-pose  of  renewing  the  notes  or  some  of  them  formerly  given  for  discount ;  and 
said  Michael  Hays,  confiding  in  such  representations,  did  indorse  notes  for  various  sums 
of  money,  amounting  to  ten  thousand  dollars,  said  notes  being  blank  as  to  the  dates  there- 
of, when  delivered  to  said  George  Washington  Doane,  and  delivered  the  same  to  him  for 
the  purpose  aforesaid ;  but  said  George  Washington  Doane  failed  to  use  said  notes,  given 
for  renewal  of  other  notes,  for  that  purpose,  and  used  the  same  for  other  purposes,  having 
them  discounted,  or  passed  to  other  pei-sons  for  value,  and  left  said  first  mentioned  notes 
to  be  protested,  thereby  fraudulently  increa.sing  the  liability  of  said  Michael  Hays,  by 
the  sums  of  money  for  which  the  notes  so  given  for  renewal  of  other  notes  were  drawn, 
to  wit,  to  the  amount  of  ten  thousand  dollars. 

And  in  particular,  that  in  the  month  of  May,  1848,  said  George  Washington  Doane 
having  procured  the  indorsements  of  said  Michael  Hays,  on  divers  notes  discounted  for  the 
accommodation  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  before  that  time,  procured  said  Michael 
Hays  to  indorse  six  other  promissory  notes  for  one  thousand  dollars  each,  payable  to  said 
Michael  Hays,  but  without  the  dates  being  inserted  therein,  and  deliver  them  to  said 
George  Washington  Doane,  upon  the  pretext  and  representation  that  notes  previously 
indorsed  by  said  Michael  Hays  would  fall  due  during  the  contemplated  absence  of  said 
Georsre  AVnshington  Doane,  and  that  he  needed  these  six  notes  to  renew  those  so  about  to 
fall  due,  till  he  could  realize  the  proceeds  of  the  loan  of  fifty  thousand  dollars  then  just 
negotiated  ;  and  said  George  Washington  Doane,  having  under  those  representations  and 
for  tliat  purpose  obtained  said  sis  notes  so  indorsed,  did  not  apply  them  in  renewal  of 
notes  previously  indorsed  by  said  Michael  Hays,  but  used  and  applied  them  to  other 
pui-poses,  whereby  said  Michael  Hays  was  fi-audulently  made  responsible  for  the  whole 
amount  of  said  notes  over  and  above  his  previous  hability  for  said  George  Washington 


(    7    ) 

Doano  ;  and  that  said  George  "Washington  Doane  having  obtained,  in  tlie  yeai*  aforesaid, 
indorsements  of  said  Michael  Hays  on  notes,  of  -which,  notes  to  the  amount  of  four  thousand 
dollars  were  protested  for  non-payment,  and  said  Michael  Hays  having  indorsed  other 
notes  for  fom-  thousand  dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  up  said  protested  notes,  and 
having  delivered  the  same  to  said  George  Washington  Doane,  for  that  purpose,  applied 
afterwards  to  him  for  the  four  protested^notes,  when  said  George  Washington  Doane 
delivered  him  two  of  said  protested  notes,  and  referred  him  to  Reuben  J.  Germain  for  the 
other  two,  under  the  false  pretence  that  said  R.  J.  Gennain  had  them  ;  but  on  application 
to  said  R.  J.  Germain,  he  replied  that  he  knew  nothing  of  those  two  notes ;  and  said  two 
notes  were  not  in  fact  taken  up  by  said  George  Washington  Doane,  with  the  notes  given 
him  for  that  purpose  ;  but  said  Michael  Hays  was  compelled  to  pay  said  two  protested 
notes,  and  said  George  Washington  Doane  fraudulently  misapplied  the  two  notes  indorsed 
for  the  pui-pose  of  taking  them  up,  to  other  purposes,  whereby  the  liability  of  said  Michael 
Hays  was  increased  for  said  George  Washington  Doane,  by  his  fraudulent  misappUcation 
of  said  two  notes,  to  the  amount  of  two  thousand  dollars. 

Specification  4th. 
In  this. 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  at  various  times  during 
the  yeai's  1847  and  1848,  procured  one  Joseph  Deacon,  in  New  Jersey,  to  indorse  divers 
promissory  notes  for  tlie  accommodation  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  for  divers  large 
sums  of  money,  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  over  the  sum  of  eleven  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars,  which  notes  had  not  the  dates  inserted  when  so  indorsed  and  delivered  to 
said  George  Washington  Doane,  to  be  discounted  at  his  convenience ;  and  said  notes  having 
been  discounted  for  the  use  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  whereby  said  Joseph 
Deacon  was  liable  thereon  to  that  amount;  he,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane 
pretending  that  he  was  desirous  of  renewing  said  notes,  did  pi'oduce  to  the  said  Joseph 
Deacon  divers  notes  for  various  sums  of  money,  and  mostly  without  the  dates  being 
inserted  therein,  at  several  times  during  1848  and  1849,  and  procured  and  induced  the 
said  Joseph  Deacon  to  indorse  sundry  of  those  promissoiy  notes,  for  the  accommodation 
of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  for  divers  large  sums  of  money,  amounting  in  the 
aggregate  to  the  sum  of  eleven  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  wliich  notes  had  not  the 
dates  inserted  when  indorsed,  under  the  false  pretence  and  assurance  that  said  last 
mentioned  promissory  notes  were  needed  for  the  renewal  of  those  whereon  said  Joseph 
Deacon  was  already  liable,  and  that  said  new  notes  should  be  used  only  for  the  pui*pose 
of  such  renewal ;  and  said  Joseph  Deacon  confiding  in  such  false  assurances,  liaving  in  the 
years  last  aforesaid,  in  New  Jersey,  indorsed  for  said  George  Washington  Doane,  for  hia 
accommodation,  at  his  request,  the  said  notes,  and  dehvered  them  to  him  or  his  agents, 
for  the  sole  purpose  of  renewing  notes  whereon  said  Joseph  Deacon  was  already  liable, 
the  said  George  Washington  Doane  did  not  use  and  apply  the  said  notes  for  the  purpose 
of  renewing  such  former  notes,  but  did  cause  the  same  to  be  discounted  and  passed  away 
to  third  parties,  so  as  to  increase  the  liabilities  of  said  Joseph  Deacon,  for  the  said  George 
Washington  Doane,  to  the  full  amount  of  eleven  thousand  five  hundred  dollai-s. 

That  among  the  notes  making  the  eleven  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  aforesaid,  was 
a  certain  note  for  one  thousand  dolhirs,  indorsed  by  the  said  Joseph  Deacon,  for  tlie  ac- 
commodation of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  and  within  the  years  1848  and  1849, 
discounted  for  his  benefit  by  the  Camden  Bank ;  and  that  said  George  Washington  Doane 
procured  said  Joseph  Deacon  to  indorse  and  deliver  to  one  Reuben  J.  Germain,  another 
note  for  one  thousnnd  dollars,  upon  tlie  false  pretext  and  assurance  that  such  new  note 
should  be  substituted  for  the  said  former  note,  in  renewal  of  the  same ;  but  said  Joseph 


(     8     ) 

Deacon  having  indorsed  such  new  note  and  deUvered  the  same  to  the  said  Reuben  J. 
Germain,  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  did  not  apply  and 
use  said  note  in  renewal  of  and  substitution  for  the  said  former  note,  but  on  the  contrary, 
allowed  the  said  former  note  to  be  protested,  and  ti-ansferred  said  new  note  to  another 
person,  so  as  to  double  the  liability  of  said  Joseph  Deacon,  by  the  fraudulent  misapplica- 
tion of  said  new  note  whereon  he  became  liable  to  such  third  party,  and  said  George  "W. 
Doane  falsely  stated  in  writing  to  said  Joseph  Deacon,  that  said  fonner  note  had  been 
renewed  by  said  Camden  Bank. 

Tliat  two  other  notes,  part  of  said  eleven  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  to  wit,  one 
for  the  sum  of  seven  hundred  dollars,  and  one  for  the  sum  of  seven  himdrcd  and  fifty 
dollars,  in  the  years  aforesaid,  were  indorsed  by  said  Joseph  Deacon,  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  and  discounted  by  the  Mechanics  Bank  of  Burling- 
ton ;  and  said  Joseph  Deacon,  at  the  instance  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  indorsed 
and  delivered  to  said  Doane,  two  other  notes  of  like  amount,  for  the  renewal  of  said  former 
notes,  on  the  false  pretence  and  assurance  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  that  such 
new  notes  should  be  used  for  the  renewal  of  said  former  notes,  discounted  as  aforesaid ;  yet 
said  George  Washington  Doane  having,  under  such  representations,  obtained  such  new 
notes,  indorsed  by  said  Joseph  Deacon,  did  not  so  apply  or  use  them,  or  either  of  them, 
but  transferred  the  same  to  other  parties,  so  doubling  the  liability  of  said  Joseph  Deacon, 
by  such  fraudulent  misapplication. 

Specification  5Tn. 
In  this, 

Tliat  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  the  month  of  December,  1848,  falsely 
representing  to  the  said  Joseph  Deacon,  that  said  Joseph  Deacon  was  responsible  on  two 
notes  for  five  hundred  dollars  each,  discounted  at  the  Medford  Bank,  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  and  that  the  same  could  be  renewed  if  the  said 
Joseph  Deacon  would  indorse  a  new  note  for  one  thousand  dollars,  to  be  used  for  that  pui-- 
pose,  said  Joseph  Deacon  did  indorse  a  note  for  one  thousand  dollars,  payable  to  said 
Reuben  J.  Germain,  and  by  said  Germain  indorsed,  and  deliver  the  same  to  said  Gei'- 
main,  as  the  agent  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  for  the  pm-pose  of  renewing  the 
two  notes  aforesaid,  whereon  he  was  represented  as  being  responsible;  but  the  said 
George  Washington  Doane  did  use  and  apply  said  note  so  indorsed,  to  discharge  a  certain 
note  for  five  hundred  dollars,  discounted  in  said  Medford  Bank,  for  the  benefit  of  said 
George  Washington  Doane,  but  whereon  said  Joseph  Deacon  was  not  an  indorser,  and  in 
no  manner  responsible,  and  in  substitution  or  renewal  of  another  note  in  said  Bank,  for  five 
hundred  dollars,  whereon  said  Joseph  Deacon  was  responsible. 

Specification  6th. 
In  this, 

That  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  being  indebted  to  one  William  E.  Page,  in 
the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  for  so  much  money  boiTOwed  of  him,  and  being  pressed 
for  payment,  falsely  represented  to  the  said  Josepli  Deacon,  that  there  was  a  certain  note 
for  five  hundred  dollars,  whereon  said  Deacon  was  an  indorser,  which  said  George  Wasli- 
ington  Doane  was  desirous  to  renew,  and  under  such  false  pretext,  procured  and  induced 
said  Joseph  Deacon  to  indorse  a  note  for  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars,  for  the  purpose 
of  being  used  in  renewal  of  the  said  alleged  note  for  a  like  amount ;  and  said  Joseph 
Deacon  confiding  in  such  representation,  indorsed  and  delivered  a  note  for  that  .amount, 
to  said  Geoi-ge  Washington  Doane,  for  such  purpose ;  but  in  fact  there  was  no  note  of 
five  .hundred  dollars,  whereon  said  Joseph  Deacon  was  iiKlor?cr,  for  tlie  renewal  whereof 


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Fuch  new  note  was  requi^3ite ;  but  said  George  "Washington  Doane  transfeiTed  said  note, 
so  indorsed  by  said  Joseph  Deacon,  to  the  said  William  E.  Page,  as  security  for  the  said 
debt  of  five  hundred  dollars,  due  him  by  said  George  Washington  Doane,  but  for  which 
said  Joseph  Deacon  was  before  in  no  manner  hable. 

Specification  7th. 
In  this, 

That  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  the  latter  part  of  May,  or  in  the  first  part 
of  June,  in  the  year  1  S^S,  in  New  Jersey,  represented  to  the  said  Joseph  Deacon,  through 
the  agents  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  and  in  his  own  person,  that  he  was 
negotiating  a  loan  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  be  secured  upon  certain  property  by 
mortgage,  which  money  was  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  debts  of  said  George  Washing- 
ton Doane,  owing  to  said  Joseph  Deacon,  or  ■whereon  he  was  liable  for  said  George. 
Washington  Doane,  among  others,  and  for  such  purposes,  requested  the  said  Joseph 
Deacon  to  advance  the  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars ;  and  the  said  Joseph  Deacon  confi- 
ding in  such  false  pretences,  did  sign  and  deliver  to  the  said  George  Washington  Doane, 
five  promissory  notes,  each  for  the  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars,  one  payable  at  ninety  days, 
the  other  four  at  the  expiration  of  each  of  the  next  four  months  successively,  under  the 
express  assurance  of  the  said  George  Wasliingtou  Doane,  that  he  would  not  part  with  the 
said  several  notes. 

Yet  said  George  Washington  Doane,  contraiy  to  the  intent  of  the  parties,  and  to  the 
assurances  and  pretences  aforesaid,  did  not  retain  the  said  notes,  but  transferred  them  to 
third  parties,  for  value,  whereby  the  said  Joseph  Deacon  became  liable  to  pay  the  sum  of 
shree  thousand  dollars  aforesaid,  to  third  parties,  and  for  other  purposes  than  those  for 
which,  on  the  representations  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  the  said  notes  had  been 
delivered  to  him,  thus  creating  an  additional  liability  of  said  Joseph  Deacon  for  him,  con- 
traiy to  the  inteut  of  the  parties ;  and  though  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  beside,i 
tlie  proceeds  of  the  said  notes,  received  divers  other  large  sums  of  money  on  account  of 
said  loan  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  which  are  specified  in  a  certain  deed  of  mortgage, 
dated  the  10th  day  of  June,  1848,  between  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  and  Eliza 
G.  his  wife,  of  the  one  part,  and  Isaac  B.  Parker,  Thomas  Milnor,  Richard  S.  Field, 
Jeremiah  C.  Garthwaite,  and  Nathan  Thorp,  of  the  other  part,  and  recorded  in  the  county 
of  Burlington,  yet  no  part  either  of  the  proceeds  of  said  notes  of  said  Joseph  Deacon,  nor 
any  other  portion  of  the  said  money  received  by  said  George  Washington  Doane,  was  ever 
applied  cither  in  payment  of  any  part  of  the  debt  due  by  said  George  Washington 
Doane  to  said  Joseph  Deacon,  nor.  to  discharge  any  of  the  debts  whereon  said  Joseph 
Deacon  was  liable  for  him,  according  to  the  representations  by  said  George  Washington 
Doane,  of  the  purposes  of  said  loan,  and  the  property  included  in  said  mortgage  was 
utterly  illusoiy  and  insufficient  as  a  secm-ity  for  tlie  payment  of  the  sums  pui-porting  to 
be  secured  thereby,  and  in  point  of  fact,  no  part  of  said  three  thousand  dollars  has  been 
repaid  by  said  George  W.  Doane  to  said  Joseph  Deacon,  nor  has  been  secured  for  the 
same. 

Specification  Sth. 
In  this. 

That  the  said  George  Washiugton  Doane,  in  the  latter  part  of  May,  or  in  the  first  part 
of  June,  1848,  represented  in  person  and  by  his  agents,  to  said  Michael  Hays,  in  New 
Jersey,  that  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  was  negotiating  a  loan  of  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  which  money  was  to  be  secured  by  mortgage  on  certain  property,  and  was  to  be 
applied  in  payment  of  certain  debts  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  due  to  said 
Michael  Hays,  or  whereon  said  Michael  Hays  was  liable  to  third  parties,  for  the  said 


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George  Washington  Doane,  together  with  other  debts  of  the  said  George  "Washiugtoo 
Doane,  which  said  debts  and  liabilities  it  was  represented  said  sum  of  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars would  wholly  or  in  great  part  discharge,  and  for  such  purposes  requested  the  Paid 
ilichael  Hays  to  loan  and  advance  the  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars  ;  and  said  Michael 
Hays,  confiding  in  such  false  pretences  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  did  loan  and 
advance  to  him  the  sum  of  thi-ee  thousand  dollars,  for  the  pm-poses  aforesaid  ;  and  the  said 
sum  of  three  thousand  dollars  was  included  with  other  sums  advanced  to  make  up  said 
loan,  in  a  certain  mortgage  on  certain  property  in  New  Jersey,  dated  the  10th  day  of  June, 
1848,  between  said  George  Washington  Doane  and  Eliza  G.,  his  wife,  of  the  one  part,  and 
Isaac  B.  Parker,  Thomas  Mikior,  Richard  S.  Field,  Jeremiah  0.  Garthwaite,  and  Nathan 
Thorp,  of  the  second  part,  recorded  in  Burlington  county,  but  the  property  to  secure  the 
same  was  utterly  illusory  and  iusuflicieut ;  but  the  said  George  Washington  Doane 
having  received  the  said  three  thousand  dollars,  as  well  as  other  large  sums  for  the 
purpose  aforesaid,  did  not  apply  the  same,  or  any  part  thereof  to  the  liquidation  of  the 
debt  owing  by  bun  to  said  Michael  Hays,  nor  to  the  discharge  of  any  debt  whereon  tJie 
said  Michael  Hays  was  responsible  for  said  George  Washington  Doane ;  but  fraudulently 
and  in  violation  of  the  purposes  of  the  loan,  and  the  assurances  and  representations  of 
said  George  Washington  Doane,  on  the  faith  whereof  said  three  thousand  dollars  were 
advanced,  applied  the  same  to  other  purposes,  thereby  increasing  the  responsibility  of 
said  Michael  Hays,  for  said  George  Washington  Doane,  fraudulently,  to  the  full  amount  of 
said  notes. 

Specification  9th. 
In  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  while  soliciting  a  loan  of  fifty 
thousand  dollai-s,  for  the  purpose  of  relieving  him  of  his  embarrassments,  did,  in  the  months 
of  May  and  June,  in  the  year  1848,  represent  in  person  and  by  his  agents,  to  divers  per- 
sons who  were  solicited  to  contribute  money  and  funds  to  said  loan,  that  the  money  and 
funds  so  contributed  would  be  secured  by  a  mortgage  on  certain  property,  of  sufiicient 
value  to  make  the  same  a  safe  investment,  which  representation  was  made  to  Michael 
Hays,  Joseph  Deacon,  Saiah  0.  Robardet,  John  Black,  John  Irick,  Matthew  McHenry,  and 
Jonathan  J.  Spencer,  among  others ;  but  said  George  Washington  Doane  did  not  secure 
the  sums  so  advanced,  on  property  of  adequate  value,  but  seemed  the  said  loan  only  on 
the  property  mentioned  and  conveyed  in  and  by  a  certain  mortgage  dated  10  June,  1848, 
between  George  Washington  Doane  and  Eliza  G.,  his  wife,  and  Isaac  B.  Parker,  Thomas 
Milnor,  Richard  S.  Field,  Jeremiah  C.  Garthwaite,  and  Nathan  Thorp,  now  of  record  in 
Burlington  county,  which  said  property  was  then  subject  to  heavy  liabilities  and  liens,  and 
well  known  by  said  George  Washington  Doane,  at  the  time  of  such  representations,  to  be 
utterly  inadequate  to  secure  the  sums  so  borrowed  on  the  faith  thereof. 

Specification  10th. 
In  this, 

Tliat  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  in  the  month  of  October 
in  the  year  1848,  being,  as  he  well  knew,  utterly  insolvent,  and  knowing  that  one  Alfi^ed 
Stubbs,  a  Presbyter  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  held  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars, 
belonging  to  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Christian  Knowledge  and  Piety,  an  associa- 
tion of  members  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  in  the  said  Diocese,  which  sum  it  was 
the  duty  of  said  Alfred  Stubbs  to  loan  out  or  invest  on  good  security,  at  legal  interest,  did 
bon-ow  the  said  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  from  the  said  Alfred  Stubbs,  under  the  pro- 
mise and  condition  that  he  would  give  said  Alfred  Stubbs  satisfactory  security,  without 
delay ;  but  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  having  obtained  possession  of  said  sum  of 


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juoney,  did  not  give  the  said  Alfred  Stubbs  satisfactory  security  therefor,  but  gave  him 
no  other  security  than  the  bond  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  with  a  power  of  attor- 
ney to  enter  judgment  on  said  bond,  payable  in  thirty  days,  which  instninient  was  no 
security  till  the  expiration  of  thirty  days,  and  was  not  satisfactory  to  said  Alfred  Stubbs, 
and  was  not  such  security  that  a  person  holding  trust  funds  would  be  justified  in  loaning 
such  funds  on  the  faith  of  it,  nor  was  it  such  security  as  was  contemplated  at  the  time  ot 
the  loan  of  said  money,  and  it  did  not  in  fact  secure  the  payment  of  said  one  thousand 
dollars,  but  by  the  foilure  and  legal  insolvency  of  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  the 
said  Alfred  Stubbs  was  left  without  any  legal  remedy  to  secure  said  debt,  which  conduct 
of  said  George  Washington  Doane  was  a  knowmg  concurrence  on  his  part  in  a  misappli- 
cation of  trust  funds,  in  a  breach  of  trust  relative  thereto,  and  immoral ;  and  was  specially 
criminal  in  a  Bishop,  whose  duty  it  was  to  care  anxiously  for  the  safety  of  funds  charit-ably 
contributed  for  the  promotion  of  Christian  knowledge  and  piety. 

Specification  lira. 
In  this, 

That  the  said  Geoi-ge  Washington  Doane,  at  various  times  during  the  years  1846  and 
1847  and  1848,  during  all  which-  time  he  was  insolvent  and  utterly  unable  to  pay  his 
debts,  and  knowing  that  one  Reuben  J.  Germain  held,  as  Treasurer  of  the  Convention  of 
the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  money  and  stocks  and  valuable  securities,  to  the  amount  of 
seven  thousand  dollars  and  upwards,  which  funds  it  was  the  duty  of  said  Reuben  J.  Gei'- 
main  to  keep  invested  on  good  security,  did  procure  the  said  Reuben  J.  Germain  to  loan 
to  him,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  out  of  the  said  funds  so  belonging  to  the  said 
Convention,  divers  sums  of  money,  at  various  times  during  the  years  aforesaid,  amounting 
in  the  aggregate  to  the  sum  of  seven  thousand  dollars  and  upwards,  upon  the  security  ot 
the  notes  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  solely,  contrary  to  the  duty  of  tiie  said 
Reuben  J.  Germain,  as  treasm-er  of  said  Convention,  and  without  the  knowledge  of  said 
Convention,  that  said  sum  of  money  had  been  loaned  to  the  said  Geoi-ge  Washington 
Doane,  without  other  security  than  his  notes,  the  said  notes  of  the  said  Geoi-ge  Washing- 
ton Doane  not  being  any  safe  or  adequate  security  for  said  money,  at  the  times  they  were 
respectively  given ;  and  tlie  said  money  so  borrowed  remained  so  witliout  other  security 
till  the  failure  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  March,  1849,  whereby  the  same  was 
wholly  lost  to  the  said  Convention,  which  conduct  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane, 
involved  the  guilt  of  participatmg  in  a  breach  of  trust,  the  guilt  of  inducing  an  officer  of 
the  Convention  to  violate  the  trusts  of  his  office,  and  the  guilt  of  jeoparding  the  property 
of  the  Convention  without  its  knowledge,  and  without  obtaining  its  sanction,  said  George 
Washington  Doane  never  having  caused  the  said  Convention  to  be  informed  that  said 
money  was  held  by  him  unsecured,  save  by  his  own  notes,  and  the  guilt  of  endangering, 
by  appropriating  them  to  his  own  use,  the  safety  of  funds  consecrated  to  the  service  of  the 
Church  of  God. 

Specification  12th. 
In  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  been,  in  November,  1840, 
appointed  Guardian  of  George  D.  Winslow,  by  the  Orphans'  Court  of  Burlington  countv, 
in  New  Jersey,  and  having  given  bond  for  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  his  said 
.office,  with  Mrs.  A.  C.  Winslow,  as  security  in  said  bond,  and  having  received  property  of 
the  said  infant,  to  a  large  amount,  to  wit,  to  the  value  of  one  thousand  dollars,  did,  in 
violation  of  his  duty  and  trust  as  guai'dian  aforesaid,  misapply  said  property,  by  appropriat- 
ing the  same  to  his  own  use,  without  giving  valid  security  for  the  same,  thereby  subject- 


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jng  the  said  A.  C.  Wiuslow  to  liability  to  pay  said  money  to  Lis  ward,  and  jeoparding 
his  ward's  pi-operty,  which  money  said  George  Washington  Doane  Las  not  repaid. 

Specification  13th. 
In  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  being,  on  or  about  the  5th  day 
of  June,  1850,  in  New  Jersey,  indebted  to  the  Camden  Bank,  upon  a  certain  promissoiy 
note  for  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  whereon  Michael  Hays  was  an  indorser,  when 
said  note  approached  maturity,  being  unable  to  meet  said  liability,  induced  the  Cashier  of 
said  Camden  Bank  not  to  protest  said  note  so  as  to  fix  the  indorser,  by  the  Mse  assur- 
ance and  jjretenco,  that  he,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  would,  soon  after  his  re- 
turn home,  send  to  said  Cashier,  the  money  to  pay  said  note,  or  a  new  note  for  the  same, 
with  the  said  Michael  Hays  as  an  indorser ;  and  said  Cashier,  leaving  confided  in  such 
promises,  and  neglected  to  protest  said  note,  so  that  the  said  indorser  was  dischai-ged,  the 
said  George  Washington  Doane  did  not  send  the  money  requisite  to  pay  said  note,  to  the 
Cashier,  nor  to  the  said  Bank,  nor  did  he  deliver  to  said  Cashier,  nor  to  said  Bank,  another 
note  for  the  said  debt,  with  the  indorsement  of  said  Michael  Haj's,  or  any  other  person, 
whereby  said  Camden  Bank  was  defrauded  out  of  the  security  of  said  Michael  Hays'  in- 
dorsement, and  out  of  said  debt. 

•Specification  14th. 
In  this, 

That  Geoi-ge  Washington  Doane,  Bisnop  as  aforesaid,  repeatedly  and  at  vaiious  times 
during  the  years  1847  and  1848  and  1849,  drew  a  great  number  of  checks  and  drafts  or 
orders  for  divers  large  sums  of  money,  on  the  Mechanics  Bank,  of  Burlington,  and  on  the 
Bank  of  North  America,  in  Philadelphia,  on  the  Morris  County  Bank,  in  New  Jersey,  on 
the  Bank  of  Princeton,  and  on  other  Banks,  and  delivered  the  said  checks,  drafts  or  orders 
to  divers  persons  to  whom  he  was  indebted,  in  payment  of  the  moneys  so  owing  by  said 
George  Washington  Doane  to  them,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  not  having,  at 
the  time  when  said  checks,  drafts  or  orders  were  drawn,  nor  when  they  were  respectively 
payable,  funds  to  meet  and  satisfy  them  respectively,  in  the  several  Banks  whereon  said 
checks,  drafts  or  orders  were  drawn,  and  said  George  Washington  Doane,  having  at  the 
time  of  drawing  said  checks,  drafts  or  orders,  no  right  or  authority  to  draw  them  on  those 
Banks  respectively,  and  having  no  reasonable  expectation  of  having  funds  in  said  Banks, 
to  meet  said  checks,  drafts  or  orders,  when  presentable,  which  conduct  was  fraudulent  and 
immoral. 

That  in  the  year  1848  or  1849,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  di'ew  a  check  on 
the  Mechanics  Bank  of  Burlington,  for  the  sum  of  two  thousand  two  hundred  dollars, 
and  delivered  the  same  to  the  Princeton  Bank,  in  jiayment  of  a  debt  due  by  him  to  said 
Princeton  Bank,  when  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  had  no  money  in  the  said 
Mechanics  Bank  of  Burlington,  to  meet  said  check  when  the  same  was  payable,  nor  when 
the  same  was  presented  for  payment 

That  on  or  about  the  month  of  July,  1848,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  bor- 
rowed of  one  William  B.  Price,  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  delivered 
to  the  said  Price,  a  check  on  the  Mechanics  Bank  of  Burlington,  for  the  said  money,  pay- 
able in  a  week  or  thereabouts;  but  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  did  not  provide 
funds  in  said  Bank  to  meet  said  check,  when  the  same  was  payable,  and  the  same,  when 
presented,  was  not  in  fact  paid. 

That  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  drew  and  delivered  to  Joseph  Deacon,  tlie 
checks  following,  on  the  respective  days  whereon  they  bear  date,  on  the  Mechanics  Bank 
oi  Burlington,  that  is  to  say,  a  check  dated  12  November,  1848,  on  the  said  Bank,  pay- 


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able  to  J.  Deacon,  or  bearer,  for  fifty  dollars ;  a  check  dated  17  November,  1848,  on  said 
Bank,  payable  to  Joseph  Deacon,  or  bearer,  for  fifty  dollar's  ;  a  check  dated  25  Novem- 
ber, 1848,  ou  said  Bank,  payable  to  Joseph  Deacon,  or  bearer,  for  fifty  dollars;  a  check 
dated  15  January,  1849,  on  said  Bank,  payable  to  cash,  or  bearer,  for  twenty-five  dollai'Sj 
a  check  dated  20  January,  1849,  on  said  Bank,  payable  to  cash,  or  bearer,  for  twenty-five 
dollars  ;  a  check  dated  20  February,  1849,  on  said  Bank,  payable  to  cash,  or  bearer,  for 
eighteen  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents ;  and  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  also 
drew  and  delivered,  or  caused  to  be  delivered  to  Gideon  Humphreys,  a  check  on  the 
Mechanics  Bank  at  Bm-Ungton,  payable  to  bearer,  for  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen dollars,  and  dated  on  the  10th  November,  1848 ;  and  said  George  "Washington 
Doane  had  not,  at  the  several  times  when  said  checks  were  respectively  drawn,  nor  when 
the  same  were  payable,  any  funds  in  the  Mechanics  Bank  of  Burlington,  to  meet  the 
same,  and  said  checks  were  not  in  fact  paid,  when  presented  at  said  Bank,  and  are  stiil 
unpaid. 

.    All  which  conduct  on  the  part  of  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  was  fraudulent  and 
immoral,  and  scandalous  in  a  Christian  Bishop. 

Specification  15Tn. 
In  this, 

That  George  "Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  about  the  month  of  March,  1847, 
and  when  he  was  utterly  insolvent,  induced  and  prevailed  on  one  Sarah  C.  Robardet,  in 
Bm-lington,  to  loan  him  three  thousand  dollars,  upon  the  false  representation  and  assurance 
that  he  would  give  her  a  mortgage  on  certain  property  worth  six  thousand  dollars,  for  the 
securing  of  the  repayment  of  the  money,  and  she,  confiding  in  such  representation,  loaned 
the  said  three  thousand  dollars,  to  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  who  thereupon,  on 
the  11th  day  of  March,  1847,  executed  a  mortgage  on  a  certain  parcel  of  laud,  to  said 
Sarah  C.  Robardet,  which  was  not  worth  the  sum  of  six  thousand  dollars,  but  on  the  con- 
trary, said  land  being  scarcely  woi-th  six  thousand  dollars  in  fee  free  from  incumbrances, 
was  already  subject  to  a  prior  lien  or  mortgage  for  twenty-five  hundred  dollars,  of  which 
the  said  George  Washington  Doane  was  well  informed  when  he  solicited  and  obtained  said 
loan,  but  which  he  did  not  disclose  to  said  Sarah  0.  Robardet,  and  by  such  concealment 
he  obtained  said  loan,  which  could  not  have  been  obtained  but  for  such  concealment ;  and 
the  said  land,  subject  to  such  prior  lien,  was  not  an  adequate  security  for  the  thi'ee  thousand 
dollars  advanced  thereon,  to  said  George  Washington  Doane,  according  to  the  usages  of 
business  men,  in  all  which  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  imposed  on  and  deceived 
the  said  Sarah  C.  Robardet,  by  inducing  her  to  believe  she  would  have  a  secmuty  to  the 
extent  of  six  thousand  dollars,  for  the  three  thousand  loaned  as  aforesaid,  and  said  George 
Washington  Doane,  in  order  to  secure  said  loan,  used  undue  importunity  and  solicitation, 
to  which  his  character  as  Bishop  gave  preponderating  weight. 

Specification  16th. 
In  this, 

That  Geoi^e  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  in  the  year  1848,  upon  the  repre- 
sentation to  one  Herman  HoOker,  in  Philadelphia,  a  bookseller,  that  the  said  George  Wash- 
ington Doane  had  raised  money  by  a  collection,  for  the  purchase  of  a  parish  library,  or 
other  similar  object,  obtained  frotn  said  Herman  Hooker,  on  the  ftiith  of  such  collection, 
books  to  the  value  of  about  seventy  dollars,  and  having  obtained  said  books,  failed  or  re- 
fused to  pay  for  them,  and  they  were  not  paid  for  at  the  date  of  his  insolvent  assignment ; 
all  which  conduct  was  immoral  and  dishonest,  since  said  George  Washington  Doane  either 
falsely  represented  that  he  had  collected  the  money  for  such  purpose,  or  having  collected 
it,  he  misapplied  it  to  other  purposes,  in  violation  of  the  trust  confided  to  him. 


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Specification  17th. 

In  this, 

That  George  Washiugton  Doane,  Bisliop  as  aforesaid,  did  after  he  had  become,  and 
■while  he  continued  utterly  insolvent  and  unable  to  pay  the  debts  already  owing  by  him,  to 
•wit,  during  the  years  1847, 1848  and  1 849,  boiTOW  large  sums  of  money  and  contract  heavy 
and  numerous  additional  debts  to  divers  persons,  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  a  sum 
exceeding  seventy -nine  thousand  doUai's:  that  is  to  say,  the  said  George  Washington 
Doane,  in  the  month  of  March,  1847,  borrowed  of  Sarah  C.  Robardet,  the  sum  of  thi-ee 
thousand  dollars. 

The  said  George  Washington  Doane  incun-ed  a  debt  of  about  two  thousand  dollars  to 
one  Thomas  Dutton,  for  groceries  and  other  goods,  wares  and  merchandise,  during  the 
years  1847,  1848  and  1849. 

The  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  or  about  the  month  of  June,  1848,  bon-owed 
from  the  following  persons  the  several  sums  respectively  following  their  names :  firom 
Lawson  Carter,  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars ;  from  Joseph  Deacon,  the  sum  of  three 
thousand  doUare  ;  from  Michael  Hays,  the  sum  of  three  thousand  doUai's ;  from  Isaac  B. 
Parker,  the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars ;  from  Thomas  B.  Woolman,  the  sum  of  two 
thousand  dollars ;  from  William  Wright,  the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars ;  from  Nathan 
Thorp,  the  sum  of  one  thousand  and  five  hundred  dollars ;  from  Thomas  Dugdale,  the 
sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  ;  from  Franklin  Woolman,  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  ; 
from  Taylor  &  Dugdale,  one  thousand  dollars  ;  from  Thomas  Dutton,  one  thousand  dol- 
lars ;  from  Sarah  C.  Robardet,  one  thousand  dollars ;  from  William  H.  Carse,  one  thou- 
sand dollars ;  from  Abi-aham  Brown,  one  thousand  dollars ;  from  Charles  Bispham,  one 
thousand  dollars  ;  from  Elias  D.  B.  Ogden,  one  thousand  dollars ;  from  John  J.  Chetwood, 
one  thousand  dollars  ;  from  Joel  W.  Condit,  one  thousand  dollars :  from  Jeremiah  C.  Garth- 
waite,  one  thousand  dollars ;  from  Samuel  Meeker,  one  thousand  dollars  ;  from  Christiana 
Lippiiicott,  one  thousand  dollai-s ;  from  George  P.  McCulock,  three  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  ;  from  Edmund  Morris,  five  hundred  dollars  ;  from  Thomas  Milnor,  five  hundred 
dollars;  from  Geoi-ge  GaskoU,  five  hundred  dollars;  from  Edward  B.  Grubb,  one  thou- 
sand dollars;  from  Samuel  Rodgers,  five  hundred  dollars;  from  William  A.  Rodgers, 
five  hundred  dollars ;  from  W.  J.  Hall,  five  hundred  dollai-s ;  from  Isaac  Alfred  Shreve, 
five  hundred  dollars;  from  David  Harmer,  five  hundred  dollars;  from  William  Mcll- 
vaine,  five  hundred  dollai-s ;  from  Albert  Havens,  five  hundred  dollars ;  from  Edward 
Harris,  five  hundred  dollars ;  from  John  Dobbins,  five  hundred  dollars ;  from  John  Black, 
five  hundred  dollars ;  from  John  Irick,  five  hundred  dollars  ;  from  Hiram  Hutdiinson,  five 
hundred  dollars;  from  Ralph  Marsh,  five  hundred  dollars;  from  James  M.  Quimby,  five 
hundred  dollars ;  from  William  J.  Watson,  five  hundred  dollars ;  from  David  Babbitt, 
one  thousand  dollars ;  from  James  A.  Williams,  one  thousand  dollars ;  from  Alfred  A. 
Sloan,  three  hundred  dollai-s ;  from  John  G.  Clark,  three  hundred  dollars;  from  Henry  A. 
Ford,  three  hundred  dollars  ;  from  George  P.  Mitchell,  three  hundred  dollars  ;  from  Tho- 
mas Hopkins  &  Son,  three  hundred  dollars  ;  from  William  C.  Myers,  three  hundred  dol- 
lars ;  from  Jonathan  J.  Spencer,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ;  from  Frederick  L.  Church- 
yard, two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars;  from  Jacob  Mitchell,  two  hundred  dollars;  from 
Daniel  Bennett,  two  hundred  dollars ;  from  Barak  T.  Nichols,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ;: 
from  William  S.  Faitoute,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollai-s ;  from  Charles  H.  Feuiniore, 
three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars ;  from  William  Stone,  three  hundred  dollars ;  from 
Francis  Roth,  three  hundred  dollars,  included  in  the  mortgage  executed  on  the  10th  day 
of  June,  1848,  between  Geoi-ge  Washington  Doane  and  Eliza  G.  his  wife,  and  Isaac  R 
Parker,  Thomas  Milnor,  Richard  S.  Field,  Jeremiah  C.  Garthwaite,  and  Nathan  Thorp, 
but  which  mortgage  was  grossly  insufficient  as  security  for  the  same. 


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That  the  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  in  July,  1848,  boiTOWod  the  sum  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  from  "William  B.  Price. 

That  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  the  month  of  October,  1848,  borrowed  from 
Alfred  Stubbs  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars. 

That  said  George  Washington  Doane,  borrowed  in  or  about  November,  1848,  from 
"WiUiam  E.  Page,  the  sum  of  five  hundred  doUars. 

That  the  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  in  the  years  1848  and  1849,  incurred  a 
debt  to  Michael  Hays,  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  by  the  use  of  notes  indorsed  for  the  accom- 
modation of  said  George  "Washington  Doane  by  said  Michael  Hays  within  that  period, 
beside  the  three  thousand  dollars  specified  in  the  mortgage. 

Tliat  said  George  "Washington  Doane,  in  tlie  years  1848  and  1849,  incurred  a  debt 
to  Joseph  Deacon,  of  eleven  thousand  and  five  hundred  dollars  and  upwards,  by  the  using 
of  notes  indorsed  by  said  JosejA  Deacon  for  the  accommodation  of  said  George  "Washing- 
ton Doane,  and  by  him  discounted  or  ti-ansferred  to  third  parties  during  that  period,  in 
addition  to  the  three  thousand  dollars  in  said  mortgage  mentioned 

That  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  1848  and  1849,  and  prior  to  March  26,  of  the 
latter  year,  borrowed  of  "William  H.  Carse,  five  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  J^,  and  by  his 
aid,  from  another  person,  the  sum  of  five  hundred  and  ninety  dollars. 

That  in  the  years  1847,  1848  and  1849,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  incurred 
a  debt  to  George  Zantzinger,  in  Philadelphia,  of  twelve  hundred  dollars,  for  wines  and 
spirituous  liquors. 

And  at  the  time  of  contracting  of  said  several  debts,  said  George  "Washington 
Doane,  well  knowing  his  insolvent  condition,  did  not  disclose  his  insolvent  condition  to  the 
said  several  persons  to  whom  he  incurred  the  said  several  responsibilities. 

Nor  did  he  disclose  to  them  or  any  of  them  the  amount  of  his  debts  and  liabilities, 
nor  the  entire  insufficiency  of  his  means  to  meet  the  same :  but  on  the  contrary  he  dealt 
with  said  several  persons  as  if  able  to  meet  the  engagements  and  perform  the  obligations 
he  was  contracting  with  them.  And  to  several  of  them,  to  wit,  to  the  said  "William  H. 
Carse,  William  E,  Page,  William  B.  Price  and  Thomas  Dutton,  he  gave  assurances  of  his 
ability  to  repay  them.  And  when  obtaining  the  indorsements  aforesaid  of  said  Michael 
Hays  and  Joseph  Deacon,  he  left  them  under  fhe  impression  that  his  affairs  were  prosper- 
ous, and  at  various  times  quieted  their  apprehensions  by  assurances  that  they  respect- 
ively should  lose  nothing  by  such  indorsements. 

The  incurring  of  which  liabilities  while  insolvent,  was  dishonest  and  rmjust,  as  well  to 
the  former  creditors  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  as  to  those  with  wh<^m  such  new 
liabilities  were  contracted  ;  and  the  immorality  thereof  was  greatly  aggravated  by  his 
failure  to  disclose  his  insolvent  condition  to  them,  and  by  the  positive  deception  practised 
by  his  false  promises  and  representations  aforesaid. 

All  which  is  unjust,  immoral,  and  unbecoming  a  Christian  Bishop,  and  tending  to  bring 
into  contempt  the  solemn  office  of  Bishop. 

Specification  18th. 
In  this. 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  on  the  20th  day  of  August, 
1849,  negotiated  an  agreement  between  Eliza  G.  Doane  his  wife,  and  Michael  Hays, 
sanctioned  by  the  consent  in  writing  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  whereby  it 
was  stipulated  that  the  said  Eliza  G.  Doane  should  transfer  to  said  Michael  Hays  all  her 
right,  title  and  interest  in  one  thousand  dollars,  with  certain  interest  in  said  agreement 
mentioned,  the  same  being  part  of  the  income  to  which  she  was  entitled  under  the  will 
of  her  former  husband,  James  Perkins,  on  the  10th  day  of  January,  1850,  and  on  every 
succeeding  10th  day  of  January,  till  half  of  the  sum  should  have  been  repaid  said  Michael 


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llay«,  which  lie  should  be  required  to  pay  under  the  terms  of  an  arrangement  indicated 
in  that  agreement  for  procuring  the  discontinuance  of  certain  suits  then  pending  against 
said  Hays  on  notes  indorsed  by  him  for  the  accommodation  of  tlie  said  George  Washington 
Doane,  without  a  contestation  of  said  suits,  together  with  interest  on  the  sum  so  to  be  paid, 
and  the  costs  incident  to  procuring  such  discontinuances ;  and  immediately  on  the  effecting 
of  such  settlement,  that  said  Eliza  G.  Doane  should  give  Michael  Hays  a  power  of  attorney 
to  receive  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  from  the  executors  of  James  Perkins  at  the 
times  above  specified — to  which  agreement,  signed  by  said  Eliza  G.  Doane,  was  appended 
the  written  assent  of  said  George  Washington  Doane ;  and  said  Michael  Hays  having 
effected  tlie  settlement  contemplated  in  that  agreement,  and  having  abandoned  all  defence 
of  the  suits  on  said  indorsements  against  him,  the  said  Eliza  G.  Doane  executed  a  power 
of  attorney  to  said  Michael  Hays  on  the  SOth  day  of  October,  1849,  reciting  the  agreement, 
and  authorizing  him  to  receive  from  the  executors  of  said  James  Perkins,  her  late  husband, 
the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  part  of  her  yearly  income,  on  the  10th  day  of  January, 
1851,  and  every  succeeding  10th  day  of  January,  till  said  Michael  Hays  shall  have 
received  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  four  hundred  and  nine  dollars,  with  interest  at  six  per 
cent,  on  the  balances  remaining  after  every  payment  of  one  thousand  dollars ;  which 
power  of  attorney  said  George  Washington  Doane  having  caused  to  be  delivered  to  said 
Michael  Hays,  in  performance  of  the  agreement  aforesaid,  he,  the  said  George  Washington 
Doane,  persuaded  and  induced  said  Michael  Hays  not  to  present  said  power  of  attorney  to 
the  executors,  and  not  to  demand  the  money  thereby  ordered  to  be  paid  on  the  10th  day 
of  January,  under  the  pretence  and  assurance  that  the  said  George  Washington  Doane 
would  pay  to  said  Michael  Hays  the  said  instalment ;  but  though  said  Michael  Hays  did 
not  demand  said  money  from  the  executors,  yet  when  in  January,  1851,  after  the  day  of 
payment,  he  called  on  said  George  Washington  Doane  for  the  same,  he  asked  further 
indulgence  till  May,  1851,  when  he  promised  to  p*y  the  same ;  and  said  Michael  Hays 
having  waited  till  said  month  of  May,  then  called  on  said  George  Washington  Doane,  who 
again  failed  and  refused  to  pay  the  said  money ;  and  upon  said  Michael  Hays  threatening 
to  apply  to  the  church  or  to  the  law  for  redress,  said  George  Washington  Doane 
threatened  that  he  would  put  himself  on  his  defence,  in  which  event  the  said  Michael 
Hays  would  get  nothing. 

And  said  Michael  Hays  thereupon  afterwards,  to  wit,  on  or  about  the  1st  day  of 
October,  1851,  caused  the  said  power  of  attorney  to  be  presented  to  the  executors 
aforesaid,  and  tlie  money  thereon  demanded  ;  but  the  executors  refused  to  pay  the  same 
or  any  part  thereof,  the  said  fund  whereon  the  said  power  of  attorney  was  drawn,  being 
an  annuity  of  six  thousand  dollars  given  by  the  will  of  said  James  Perkins  to  his  widow, 
said  Eliza  G.,  payable  quarterly,  which  fell  on  the  months  of  January,  April,  July  and 
October  in  each  year ;  all  which  instalments  had  been  drawn  at  the  time  of  the  presenta- 
tion of  said  order  or  power  of  attorney,  to  1  October,  1851  ;  and  no  provision  having 
been  made  either  by  said  George  Washington  Doane,  or  Eliza  G.,  his  wife,  to  meet  said 
payment ;  but  on  the  contrary,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  had  procui-ed  from 
said  Eliza  G.,  an  order  dated  1  October,  1851,  on  said  executors,  for  fifteen  hundred 
dollars,  the  annuity  due  on  that  day,  and  had  transferred  said  order  to  one  E.  N.  Perkins, 
by  whom  it  was  claimed  in  opposition  to  said  Michael  Hays ;  and  the  said  executors  have 
refused  and  declined  to  pay  said  instalment  to  said  Michael  Hays,  because  the  agi-eement 
is  invalid  and  the  consideration  usurious.  By  all  which  proceedings  the  said  George 
Washington  Doane,  having  induced  said  Michael  Hays  to  abandon  the  defence  of  said 
suits  on  said  indorsements,  and  so  deprived  him  of  the  chance  of  defeating  the  laws  on 
the  ground  of  usury  or  fraud,  has  now  defrauded  said  Hays  out  of  said  instalment  for 
Jaiiuaiy,  1851,  in  said  power  of  attorney  mentioned. 


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Specification  19th. 
In  tliis, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  on  or  about  the  80th  day 
of  April,  in  the  year  1845,  presented  to  and  laid  before  Horace  Binney  a  certain  subscrip- 
tion paper,  for  the  building  of  a  Church  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  for  the  purpose  of 
-procuring  the  subscription  of  the  name  of  said  Horace  Binney  thereto,  for  the  payment  of 
money  towai'ds  that  object,  and  said  Horace  Binney  having  then  and  there  refused  to 
subscribe  his  name  thereto,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  did,  out  of  the  presence 
of  said  Horace  Binney,  and  Tvithout  the  authority  and  against  the  consent  of  said  Horace 
Binney,  sign  the  name  of  said  Horace  Binney  to  the  said  paper  as  a  subscriber  of  onw 
thousand  dollars  to  the  building  of  said  church — which  act  was  immoral  and  criminal,  and 
a  fraud  on  said  Horace  Binney. 

Specification  SOth. 
In  this. 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  procured  and  induced 
sundry  persons  who  held  certificates  of  stock  in  St  Mary's  Hall,  to  sign  their  names  to  the 
subscription  paper  for  the  building  of  a  Church  in  Burlington,  in  New  Jersey,  in  the  said 
19th  specification  mentioned,  as  subscribers«of  sums  of  money  equal  to  the  stock  held  by 
them  respectively  in  St.  Mary's  Hall,  upon  the  condition  and  assurance  that  said  certifi- 
cates should  be  received  as  cash  by  him  from  them,  and  that  said  George  Washington 
Doane  would  himself  pay  the  amounts  so  subscribed  by  tliem,  and  having  in  this  mode 
and  on  those  terms  procured  the  names  of  Mi-s.  Garret  D.  Wall  and  Mrs.  Susan  V.  Brad- 
ford, and  William  McEvaine,  and  others,  to  the  said  subscription  paper  for  the  sum  of  six 
thousand  dollars,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  afterwards  pi;esented  said  paper, 
■with  those  said  names,  procured  under  the  condition  and  circumstances  aforesaid,  there- 
upon, as  promising  to  pay  money  to  the  said  amount,  and  also  with  the  name  of  Horace 
Binney  thereon,  as  a  subscriber  of  one  thousand  dollars,  placed  there  in  the  manner  men- 
tioned in  said  foregoing  specification,  to  divers  other  persons,  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining 
the  names  of  such  other  persons  as  subscribers  of  money  on  said  paper  toward  building 
said  church,  and  did  so  procure  additional  subscriptions  to  the  amount  of  at  least  six 
thousand  dollars  additional. 

And  in  presenting  said  paper  for  said  last  mentioned  subscriptions,  said  George  Wash- 
ington Doane  did  fraudulently  not  disclose  the  circumstances  under  which  the  name  of 
said  Horace  Binney  was  placed  on  said  paper,  nor  that  the  said  Jlrs.  Garret  D.  Wall,  and 
Mrs.  Susan  V.  Bradford,  and  William  Mcllvaine,  and  others  who  had  subscribed  their 
stock  in  St.  Mary's  Hall,  were  pot  in  truth  subscribers  of  the  money  which  the  paper 
represented  them  as  subscribing;  and  the  obtaining  of  signatures  to  said  paper  without 
such  disclosures,  was  obtaining  money  under  false  representations,  and  a  fraud  on  such 
subsequent  subscribers — said  certificates  of  stock  in  St.  Mary's  Hall  being  then  of  much 
less  value  than  the  sums  of  money  they  professed  to  represent. 

And  said  George  Washington  Doane  having  procured  the  names  of  said  owners  of 
certificates  of  stock  in  St.  Mary's  Hall  to  said  subscription  paper,  as  contributors  of  so 
much  money,  upon  the  condition  and  assurance  that  said  certificates  should  be  received  as 
cash  from  them,  and  that  he  would  pay  the  money  subscribed,  yet  did,  on  tlie  28th  day  of 
May,  1847,  in  New  Jersey,  in  a  letter  to  Thomas  Milnor,  write  to  the  effect  following, 
"Let  me  here  say,  that  in  procuring  a  subscription  of  more  than  $13,000,  no  man  or 
woman  put  in  a  single  word  of  condition,  or  the  slightest  claim  for  equivalent,  unless  Mr. 
Binney  so  makes  out  his  case" — which  statement  was  false  as  to  those  persons  who  sub- 
scribed on  condition  of  paying  in  certificates  of  stock  in  St.  Mary's  Hall. 
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Specification  21st. 
In  this, 

Tliat  George  Washington  Doaue,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  liaving  engaged  Munsig  &  Bow- 
man, througli  William  Munsig,  a  partner  of  that  firm,  on  or  about  the  1st  day  of  May, 

1847,  to  furnish  work,  labour  and  materials  for  the  introduction  and  establishment  of  Gas 
fixtures  at  Burlington  College,  and  at  St.  Mary's  Hall,  and  at  the  residence  of  said  George 
Washington  Doane,  at  Riverside,  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  upon  the  promise  to  pay 
them  one  thousand  dollars  in  November,  1847,  and  for  the  materials  and  labour  employed 
in  performing  said  work,  at  rates  stipulated  in  said  conti'act ;  and  for  the  balance  due  at 
the  completion  of  said  work,  to  give  them  approved  paper  for  such  balance,  payable  at 
one  year  with  interest ;  and  said  Munsig  and  Bowman  having,  on  or  about  the  23d  day  of 
May,  1847,  completed  said  work  at  an  expense  of  upwards  of  four  thousand  dollars, 
whereof  two  thousand  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars  and  thirteen  cents  remained 
unpaid,  applied  to  said  George  Washington  Doane  to  give  them  the  approved  paper,  or 
notes  at  one  year  with  interest  stipulated  for  and  promised  by  him  to  them  as  aforesaid ; 
but  said  George  Washington  Doane  refused  to  comply  with  said  promise,  and  compelled 
said  Munsig  &  Bowman  to  take  the  six  promissory  notes  of  the  said  George  Washington 
Doane,  for  the  sums  and  times  following,  without  interest,  viz.,  a  note  for  three  hundred 
and  sixty-five  dollars,  payable  to  William  Munsig  at  five  months,  and  dated  8  December, 
1848;  and  a  note  dated  22  February,  1848,  payable  to  Munsig  &  Bowman,  at  nine 
months,  for  three  hundred  and  forty-seven  dollars  and  thirteen  cents ;  and  a  note  dated 
24  February,  1 848,  at  nine  months,  for  two  hundred  dollars ;  and  a  note  dated  25  Feb- 
ruary, 1848,  at  nine  months,  for  four  hundred  dollars;  and  two  notes  dated  22  February, 

1848,  at  twelve  months,  one  for  four  hundred  dollars,  and  the  other  for  four  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars — neither  of  said  notes  having  any  indorser  or  other  security,  and  none  of  them 
bearing  interest :  and  none  of  said  notes  were  paid  when  they  respectively  fell  due,  and 
all  are  still  unpaid  :  by  which  false  promises,  said  Munsig  &  Bowman  were  defrauded  of 
the  security  due  them  as  under  said  contract,  and  of  the  money  which  ought  to  have  been 
secured  thereby. 

All  which  conduct  of  said  George  Washington  Doane  was  dishonest,  and  unbecoming 
a  Christian  Bishop. 

Specification  22d, 

In  this, 

Tliat  George  Wasliington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  given  security  to  Mrs. 
0.  Lippincott,  for  a  large  sum  of  money,  loaned  by  her  to  him,  did  in  the  year  1847,  in 
New  Jersey,  procure  from  her,  and  induce  her  to  deliver  to  him,  the  said  security,  upon 
his  promise  to  return  the  same  to  her ;  and  she,  confiding  in  such  promise,  and  in  his 
character  as  a  Christian  Bishop,  having  so  delivered  such  security,  he  wholly  neglected 
to  restore  the  same,  or  any  substitute  equivalent  thereto,  but  used  the  property  covered 
by  said  security  to  secure  some  other  creditor  or  creditors. 

Specification  23  d. 
In  this. 

That  the  said  George  'Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  did,  at  the  Convention 
of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jei'sey,  in  May,  1849,  endeavour  to  intimidate  the  Rev.  Henry  B. 
Sherman,  a  Presbyter  of  the  Convention,  and  deter  him  from  causing  an  inquiiy  to  be 
made  by  the  said  Convention,  as  to  the  condition  and  investment  of  the  Episcopal  fund 
belonging  to  the  Convention,  and  then  held  by  said  George  Washington  Doane,  on  the 
sole  secmity  of  his  own  notes,  without  the  knowledge  of  the  Convention.  All  which  was 
in  violation  of  the  duty  of  the  said  George  Washington  Doane,  to  preside  impartially 


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over  said  Convention,  was  an  attempt  to  conceal  his  own  indebtedness  from  the  Conven- 
tion, and  was  immoral,  and  unworthy  of  a  Christian  Bishop. 

•       Specification  24:TH, 
In  this. 

That  George  "Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  dui'ing  the  years  1847,  1848 
and  1849,  in  New  Jersey,  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  an  apparent  but  fictitious  credit, 
while  transacting  business  vastly  beyond  his  real  means  and  pecuniary  ability  safely  to 
conduct,  did  repeatedly  and  at  various  times,  draw  checks  and  drafts  on  various  Banks, 
to  wit,  on  the  Bank  of  Princeton,  the  Morris  County  Bank,  the  Peoples  Bank  of  Pater- 
son,  and  the  Mechanics  Bank  of  Burlington,  when  he  had  no  funds  in  said  Banks  respec- 
tively, whereon  to  draw,  payable  to  various  persons  or  corporations,  and  afterwards  and 
before  the  maturity  of  said  checks,  did  draw  other  checks  or  drafts  on  other  of  said 
Banks,  when  he  had  no  funds,  in  favour  of  the  Banks  whereon  the  first  checks  or  drafts 
bad  been  drawn,  or  to  officers  thereof,  and  transmit  such  checks  and  drafts  to  the  Banks, 
or  to  the  officers  of  said  Banks  in  whose  favour  they  were  payable,  for  the  purpose  of 
meeting  and  taking  up  the  checks  and  drafts  drawn  on  said  Banks  without  funds ;  and 
did  repeat  the  said  process  of  drawing  checks  to  meet  previous  checks,  without  funds  to 
meet  them,  from  Bank  to  Bank,  in  a  manner  deemed  disreputable  among  business  men 
and  merchants ;  said  system  of  checks  and  counter-checks  being  continued  from  Bank  to 
Bank,  till  said  George  Washington  Doane  might  be  able  to  meet  them,  either  from  his 
own  or  bj'  borrowed  money,  or  they  were  refused  payment  and  protested,  to  such  an  ex- 
tent that  his  transactions  of  this  character  at  the  Bank  of  Princeton,  between  January, 
1847,  and  14  October,  1848,  amounted  to  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-eight  thou- 
sand dollars. 

All  which  was  immoral,  and  unbecoming  in  a  Christian  Bishop, 

Specification  25th. 
In  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  did,  during  the  years  1847, 
1848  and  1849,  procure  Michael  Hays  to  indorse  notes  to  the  amount  of  more  than  ten 
thousand  dollar,?,  for  the  accommodation  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  order  that 
said  notes  might  be  discounted,  for  which  indorsements  he  paid  or  engaged  to  pay  said 
Michael  Hays  at  an  exorbitant  rate,  to  wit,  often  at  twenty  per  centum  per  annum, 
on  the  several  sums  for  which  said  notes  were  drawn,  thereby  violating  the  laws  of  New 
Jersey,  when  said  indorsements  were  made,  becoming  guilty  of  usury  himself,  and  in- 
ducing said  Hays  to  incur  equal  guilt,  all  which  was  immoral,  and  mibecoming  a  Bishop. 

Specification  26th. 
In  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  in  the  month  of  May,  1849,  in 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  when  Joseph  Deacon  was  about  to  prefer  before  the  Grand 
Juiy  for  that  county,  at  the  May  term  of  the  Court  for  that  county,  a  chaige  against  said 
George  Washington  Doane,  for  obtaining  from  said  Joseph  Deacon  his  indorsements  on 
certain  promissory  notes,  under  false  pretences,  as  specified  in  the  fourth  Specification 
above,  did,  for  the  purpose  of  inducing  said  Joseph  Deacon  to  refrain  from  preferring  such 
complaint,  promise  to  give  said  Joseph  Deacon,  if  he  would  not  go  before  the  said  Grand 
Jury  for  that  purpose,  a  judgment  bond  for  the  amount  of  money,  or  some  part  thereof^ 
for  which  said  Joseph  Deacon  had  become  liable,  by  reason  of  the  fraudulent  use  of  said 
indorsed  notes,  and  aftenvards,  in  the  same  montli  and  year,  said  George  Washington 
Doane,  having  been  informed  that  said  Joseph  Deacon  still  intended  to  prefer  his  said 


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complaint,  upon  said  Joseph  Deacon  requesting  the  execution  of  said  judgment  bond,  did 
while  alone  with  said  Joseph  Deacon,  who  was  a  very  aged  man,  endeavour  to  intimidate 
him,  by  doubling  his  fist  and  stretching  it  out  in  a  menacing  manner  towards  said  Joseph 
Deacon,  uttering  the  words, — '■  111  kill  you — I'll  kill  you,"-i-and  appearing  to  be  excited 
with  extreme  passion. 

Which  conduct  of  said  George  "Washington  Doane  was  an  illegal  attempt  to  impede 
and  obstruct  the  course  of  justice,  immoral,  and  unworthy  of  a  Christian  Bishop. 

Specification  27Tn. 
Li  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having,  on  the  26th  day  of  March, 
1849,  executed  an  assignment  of  his  property,  real  and  personal,  to  Gairet  S.  Cannon  and 
Robert  B.  Aertsen,  in  trust,  to  sell,  collect  and  dispose  of  the  same,  and  distribute  the  pro- 
ceeds to  the  creditors  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  according  to  the  law  to  secure 
creditors  an  equal  and  just  division  of  the  estates  of  debtors,  conveying  to  assignees  for  the 
benefit  of  crecUtors ;  and  an  inventory  having  been  made  out,  purporting  to  be  and  en- 
titled "  An  Inventory  of  the  estate,  real  and  personal,  of  George  W.  Doane,  of  the  city  and 
county  of  Burlington,  assigned  to  Garret  S.  Cannon  and  Robert  B.  Aertsen,  for  the  benefit 
of  his  cretlitors,  together  with  a  list  of  his  creditors,  and  the  amount  of  their  respective 
claims,"  and  in  which  inventory  the  values  of  the  various  articles  of  property,  real  and 
personal,  purported  to  be  stated  and  set  forth,  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  did,  on 
the  29th  day  of  March,  1849,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  before  John  Rodgers,  a  Master 
in  Chanceiy,  and  a  person  authorized  to  administer  the  oath  hereinafter  mentioned,  make 
oath, "  being  duly  sworn  on  the  Holy  Evangelists  of  Almighty  God,  that  the  said  inven- 
tory is  a  true  and  perfect  inventory  of  all  his  I'eal  and  personal  property,  together  with 
the  value  thereof,  as  near  as  he  can  ascertain,  and  further  saith  not ;"  but  in  truth  and  fact 
the  said  inventory  did  not  set  forth  tlie  true  value  of  the  property  therein  enumerated,  as 
near  as  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  could  ascertain  ;  but  on  the  contrary,  many 
pieces  of  said  property  were  in  said  inventory  set  down  at  values  well  known  by  said 
George  Washington  Doane  to  be  grossly  less  than  the  real  values  thereof;  and  in  particu- 
lar, of  the  furniture  in  St.  Mary's  Hall,  the  said  inventory  valued  twenty-one  piano  fortes 
at  six  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  one  hundred  and  seventy-flve  bedsteads  at  eighty- 
seven  dollars,  and  the  carpeting  and  oil  cloth  at  thirty-five  dollars,  and  the  looking-glasses, 
chairs,  tables  and  settees,  at  seventy-five  dollars,  the  kitchen  fm'niture,  and  bath  room 
furniture,  at  fifty  dollars,  all  which  articles  the  said  George  Washington  Doane  well  knew, 
or  could  have  ascertained,  were  worth  greatly  more  than  the  values  aforesaid  in  the  inven- 
tory mentioned ;  and  of  the  furniture,  household  goods,  &c.  at  Riverside,  the  said  inventory 
valued  the  desks,  chahs,  engravings,  stands,  &c.  of  the  library,  at  seventy  dollars,  and  the 
carpet,  rugs,  oil  cloth  and  bhnds,  of  the  library,  at  eighteen  dollars,  and  the  library,  con- 
sisting of  about  6,500  volumes  of  books  and  pamphlets,  at  seven  thousand  dollars,  each 
of  which  articles  said  George  Washington  Doane  well  knew,  or  could  have  ascertained, 
were  worth  greatly  more  than  the  several  values  aforesaid  assigned  to  them  in  said  in- 
ventoiy.  And  the  furniture  in  the  drawing  room,  at  Riverside,  the  said  inventory  valued 
as  follows,  to  wit,  "pictures,  sofa,  ottomans,  chairs,  tables,  centre  table  and  cover,  work- 
stand,  figure  and  pedestal,  clock  and  mantel  ornaments,  carpet  and  rug,  and  vases,  at  $173." 
And  the  furniture  in  the  dining  room,  at  Riverside,  consisting  of  the  following  articles, 
viz.  sideboard,  clock  and  mantel  ornaments,  case  of  drawers,  looking-glass,  dining  table, 
side  table,  chairs,  shovel  and  tongs,  screen,  &c.,  carpet  and  rug,  pictures  and  dumb  waiter, 
at  5*1 27,  which  said  articles  of  furniture  in  said  drawing  room,  and  in  said  dining  room,  at 
Riverside,  tlie  said  George  Washington  Doane  well  knew  were  worth  greatly  more  than 
the  several  values  aforesaid  assigned  to  them  in  said  inventory. 


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Specification  28  th. 
lu  this. 

That  George  "Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  having  made  the  assignment 
in  the  foregoing  Specification  mentioned,  did,  on  the  29th  of  March,  1849,  before  John 
Rodgers,  Master  in  Chancery,  being  authorized  to  administer  the  following  oath,  make 
oath  to  a  certain  affidavit  written  at  the  foot  of  that  part  of  the  inventory  in  the  foregoing 
epecification  mentioned,  entitled  "  List  of  Creditors,"  and  purporting  to  contain  a  list  of 
the  creditors  of  said  George  Washington  Doane,  and  the  amount  of  their  respective 
claims,  which  affidavit  is  in  the  following  words,  or  to  the  following  effect,  to  wit,  "  State 
of  New  Jersey,  Burlington  County  :  George  W.  Doane,  being  duly  sworn  according  to 
law,  upon  his  oath  doth  depose  and  say,  that  the  above  is  a  true,  full  and  perfect  list  of 
his  creditors,  with  the  amounts  severally  due  to  them,  as  far  as  he  hath  been  able  to 
ascertain,  according  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge,  and  further  saith  not" 

Whereas,  in  truth  and  in  fact,  the  said  inventory  above  said  affidavit,  and  therein  re- 
ferred to,  did  not  contain  a  true,  full  and  perfect  list  of  the  creditors  of  said  George 
Washington  Doane,  witli  the  amounts  severally  due  on  them,  as  far  as  he  had  been  able 
to  ascertain  them,  according  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge ;  but  on  the  contraiy,  said 
inventory  and  Ust  of  debts  omitted  the  Treasurer  of  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of 
New  Jersey,  and  also  the  name  of  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  to  whom 
the  said  George  Washington  Doane  well  knew  he  was  indebted  in  the  sum  of  seven  thou- 
sand dollajfs  at  least. 

It  did  not  contain  the  name  of  the  Peoples  Bank  at  Paterson  to  whom  he  owed  two 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars, 

It  omitted  the  name  of  the  Trenton  Banking  Company  to  which  he  owed  eight 
hundred  doUars  or  thereabouts. 

It  did  not  set  fortli  the  name  of  the  Princeton  Bank  to  which  he  was  indebted  one 
thousand  and  seventy-seven  dollars. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  the  Bucks  County  Bank  to  which  he  was  indebted 
one  thousand  dollars  or  thereabouts. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  tlie  Morris  County  Bank  to  which  he  owed  six  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars  or  thereabouts. 

It  did  not  set  foilh  the  names  of  the  Camden  Bank  nor  of  the  Medford  Bank  to  each 
of  which  he  was  largely  indebted. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  H.  R.  Cleveland  to  whom  he  was  indebted  fifteen 
thousand  dollars  as  he  well  knew. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  William  Chester  to  whom  he  owed  eight  hundi'ed 
dollars  as  he  well  knew. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  Sarah  C.  Robardet  to  whom  he  well  knew  he  owed 
thi'ee  thousand  dollars. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  William  E.  Page  to  whom  he  owed  five  hundred 
dollars  as  he  well  knew.. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  Herman  Hooker  to  whom  he  owed  seventy  dollars. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  names  of  the  several  persons  who  had  advanced  money  to  said 
George  Washington  Doane,  on  account  of  said  fifty  thousand  dollai-  loan,  to  whom  he 
was  indebted  in  the  several  sums  set  forth  in  the  Specification  above,  as  he  well  knew. 

It  did  not  set  forth  the  name  of  Dennis  McEvoy  to  whom  he  owed  two  hundred 
doUai's  or  thereabouts. 

It  did  not  state  the  existence  of  divers  checks  drawn  on  the  Mechanics  Bank  of  Bur- 
lington, unpaid  and  outstanding,  in  the  hands  of  divers  persons  unknown. 

It  set  forth  Michael  Hays  as  a  creditor  to  the  amount  of  seventeen  thousand  five 


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hundred  dollart",  v.bcn  said  Michael  Hays  -^ras  a  creditor  of  said  George  "WashingtoQ 
Doane  to  tlie  amount  of  about  thii-ty  thousand  dollars. 

It  set  forth  Joseph  Deacon  as  a  creditor  for  twenty-three  thousand  four  hundi'ed  dol- 
lars, -whcu  said  Joseph  Deacon  was  a  creditor  of  said  George  Washington  Doane  to  the 
amount  of  thirty  thousand  dollars  or  thereabouts. 

It  set  forth  Reuben  J.  Germain  as  a  creditor  to  the  amount  of  one  thousand  dollars, 
when  said  Reuben  J.  Germain  was  a  creditor  of  said  George  Washington  Doane  for  five 
thousand  three  hundred  and  twenty-two  dollara  and  upwards,  not  of  the  moneys  of  the 
Convention  of  New  Jersey. 

All  which  particulars  said  George  Washington  Doane,  at  the  time  of  such  oath,  either 
knew,  or  was  able  to  have  ascertained  with  ordinary  care  and  attention  :  and  the  sweaiing 
falsely  to  the  said  affidavit  in  the  particulars  aforesaid,  he  knowing  that  he  had  the  means 
of  ascertaining  the  particulars  aforesaid,  was  a  sinful  disregard  of  the  solemnity  of  &n 
oath,  and  involved  the  guilt,  either  of'deliberately  swearing  to  what  he  knew  to  be  untnie, 
or  of  rashl}',  liastily  and  unadvisedly  swearing  to  what  he  did  not  know  to  be  true. 

All  which  was  immoral,  and  scandalous  in  a  Christian  Bishop. 

Specification  29  th. 
In  this. 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  in  the  year  1849,  in  New  Jei-sey, 
after  he  had  made  the  assignment  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  his  creditors  in  the  27tb  Specifi- 
cation mentioned,  and  with  full  knowledge  of  the  amount  of  money  for  which  the  perso- 
nal pi-operty  included  in  said  deed  had  been  sold  by  the  trustees  in  said  deed,  and  that 
such  amount  was  greatly  and  manifestly  below  the  value  of  said  property,  and  that  the 
greater  part  of  the  said  articles  had  been  bought  in  at  inadequate  prices  by  the  Trustees  of 
Burlington  College,  or  by  members  of  his  family,  or  his  particular  friends,  did  not  only 
acquiesce  in  such  sale,  and  failed  to  object  to  the  same  or  to  insist  on  a  fair  re-sale  of  said 
property,  but  accepted  and  received  a  portion  of  the  goods  so  purchased,  at  grossly  inade- 
quate prices,  to  wit,  his  valuable  hbrary  and  plate  and  wines  and  contents  of  his  cellar, 
whereby  he  countenanced  the  said  sale,  and  failed  to  set  an  example  of  honesty  and  self- 
denial,  and  on  the  contrary,  cast  suspicion  and  discredit  on  his  holy  offi<:e  and  diminished 
the  respect  therefor. 

And  that  said  sale  of  goods  and  chattels  so  assigned,  was  made  at  prices  grossly 
inadequate,  is  more  fully  apparent  from  the  following  specifications  of  the  values  of 
sundry  of  the  articles  and  the  prices  for  which  they  were  sold  by  said  Ti'ustees : 

Tliat  is  to  say, 

1.  The  whole  of  said  goods  and  chattels  valued  in  the  inventory  at  thirteen  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  fifty-two  dollars,  were  sold  for  the  sum  of  eleven  thousand  two  hun- 
dred ninety-three  dollars  and  ninety-six  cents. 

2.  The  silver  plate  valued  in  the  inventory  at  three  hundred  dollars  and  worth  about 
fifteen  hundred,  was  sold  for  seventy-nine  dollars  to  Edwai'd  N.  Perkins,  the  son  of  EUza 
6.  Doane,  wife  of  the  said  Bishop. 

3.  The  library  consisting  of  six  thousand  five  hundred  volumes  of  books  and  pam- 
phlets, and  valued  in  the  inventory  at  seven  thousand  dollars,  was  sold  for  thi-ee  thousand 
dollars  to  Caroline  Watsoa 

4.  The  conservatory  and  greenhouse  valued  at  one  hundi-ed  and  fifty  d(Jlars  was  sold 
to  Edward  N.  Perkins,  the  son,  or  to  Sarah  P.  Cleaveland,  the  daughter,  of  Mi-s.  Eliza  Q. 
Doane,  for  twenty  dollara. 

5.  Contents  of  cellar,  valued  at  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollai's,  were  sold  to  Edward  N. 
Perkins  for  two  doUai's. 


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6.  Tliiee  barrels  of  wine  in  Lotties,  of  the  value  of  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars, 
for  twenty-six  dollars,  to  Edward  N.  Perkins. 

^.  Two  casks  and  contents  of  wine,  of  the  value  of  about  fifty  dollars,  for  seven 
dollars,  to  Edward  N.  Perkins. 

Specification  SOth. 
In  this, 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  in  the  year  1852,  in  New  Jersey, 
did,  with  intent  to  conceal  or  excuse  the  crimes  and  immoralities  in  the  foregoing  specifi- 
cations, or  in  some  of  them,  laid  to  his  charge,  publish  a  certain  pamphlet  known  as 
"Bishop  Doane's  Protest,  Appeal  and  Reply,"  which  said  pamphlet  is  more  minutely  de- 
scribed in  the  second  specification  above,  in  which  said  pamphlet  the  said  George  Wash- 
ington Doane  did  publisii,  among  other  things,  the  followbg  liilse  allegations  and  statements, 
knowing  them  to  be  false.     That  is  to  say, — 

At  the  last  paragraph  of  that  part  of  said  pamphlet  known  as  the  "  Appeal,"  said 
George  Washington  Doane  did  "  declare,  as  under  the  immediate  eye  of  God,  to  his  Right 
Reverend  Brethren,  his  entire  and  perfect  integrity  aud  innocence,  as  to  all  and  singular 
the  charges  made  against  him,"  whereas,  in  truth  aud  in  fact,  he  was  not  so  innocent,  but 
on  the  contrary,  was  guilty  in  the  particulars  above  specified.  The  said  George  Wash- 
ington Doane,  in  that  part  of  said  pamphlet  known  as  the  Reply,  says,  "  The  undersigned 
(meaning  himself)  never  represented  himself  to  Michael  Hays  as  solvent  and  able  to  pay 
bis  debts,"  when  in  truth  and  fact,  he  had  so  represented  himself  repeatedly  to  said 
Michael  Hays. 

The  said  George  Washington  Doane  states  in  said  Reply,  that  "  The  Treasurer' 
(meaning  the  said  Reuben  J.  Germain,  Treasurer  of  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New 
Jersey) "  lent  him  his  uninvested  funds"  (meaning  seven  thousand  dollars  of  the  money 
of  the  Convention)  "  temporarily,  on  his  notes,"  and  he  further  states  that  "  it '  (meaning 
the  funds  so  loaned  to  him  on  his  notes)  "has  been  perfectly  secured,"  when  in  truth  and 
fact,  thei-e  was  no  stipulation  nor  understanding  that  said  loan  should  be  temponny ;  nor 
had  the  same  been  perfectly  secured  at  the  date  of  said  pubUcation,  either  to  said  R.  J. 
Germain,  or  to  said  Convention. 

The  said  George  Washington  Doane  states  in  said  Reply,  that  "  There  were  several 
Banks  in  New  Jersey,  at  which  special  friends  of  the  undersigned"  (meaning  himself)  "  and 
of  his  work,  were  influential,  in  many  cases  as  Presidents  aud  Cashiers,  on  which  he  was 
pennitted  to  draw  short  drafts,  from  time  to  time,  to  be  discounted  and  placed  to  his 
credit,"  and  that  "  He  drew  no  other  checks,  but  in  connection  with  his  discounts,  on  any 
Bank,  but  that  in  Burlington,  in  which  he  kept  his  account;"  when  in  fact  and  truth  he 
was  not  authorized  or  permitted  by  any  one  having  right  to  allow  the  same,  to  draw  short 
drafts,  in  the  manner  stated  in  said  pamphlet ;  and  he  did  draw  checks  on  the  said  Banks, 
which  he  had  not  been  permitted  or  authorized  to  draw. 

The  said  George  Washhigton  Doane  stated  in  said  Reply,  that  "  the  only  ground  of 
this  false  allegation"  (meaning  the  allegation  of  "  drawing  checks  on  the  Burlington 
Bank,  when  he  had  no  money  in  said  Bank,  and  after  he  had  been  told  by  an  officer 
of  said  Bank,  that  he  must  not  draw  checks  on  said  Bank,  when  he  had  no  money 
there")  "  is  the  habit  of  the  undersigned"  (meaning  said  George  Washington  Doane) 
"  to  make  good  his  account  every  day  at  8  o'clock.  Checks  which  came  in,  in  the  early 
part  of  the  day,  -would  often  be  unprovided  for  at  that  time.  Provision  was  made  to 
meet  them  daily,  until  the  sickness  occurred ;"  when  in  truth  and  fact,  said  George 
Washington  Doane  drew  many  checks  on  said  Bank  prior  to  said  sickness,  and  after 
said  sickness,  for  which  provision  was  not  made  by  3  o'clock,  nor  at  any  other  period 
of  the  day  when  they  were  payable. 


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The  said  George  Washington  Doane  states  in  said  Reply,  that  '•  the  undersigned" 
(meaning  himself)  "denies  entirely  the  pretence  charged  above,"  (meaning  the  charge 
that  "  he  obtained  the  indorsements  of  Michael  Hays  under  pretence  that  they  were  to 
renew  notes  previously  indorsed  by  said  Michael  Hays,  and  after  obtaining  such  notes 
for  such  avowed  objects,  appropriating  them  to  other  purposes,  to  an  amount  much 
larger  than  he  would  have  been  willing  to  indorse  for  said  George  Washington 
Doane,")  whereas  the  said  pretence  charged  was  true,  and  the  denial  thereof  by  said 
George  Washington  Doane,  in  said  Reply,  was  false. 

The  said  George  Washington  Doane,  in  said  Reply,  did  state  that  the  said  denial 
above  quoted,  was  applicable  to  the  charge  of  obtaining  the  indorsements  of  Joseph 
Deacon  under  the  same  pretence  charged  above  as  to  Michael  Hays'  indorsements; 
which  denial  of  said  George  Washington  Doane  was  in  lilie  manner  false. 

The  said  George  Wasliington  Doane,  in  said  Reply,  states  that  "  the  undersigned,"' 
(meaning  himself,)  "when  on  the  visitation  of  a  portion  of  his  Diocese,  had  been  the 
bearer  of  a  letter  from  the  former  Treasurer  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of 
Christian  Knowledge  and  Piety,  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stubbs,  then  newly  appointed  to  that 
office.  As  afterwards  appeared,  it  contained  bank  notes  for  one  thousand  doUars, 
being  so  much  of  the  funds  of  the  Society.  In  the  course  of  his  visit,  Mr.  Stubbs  said 
to  him,  that  he  had  that  money ;  that  he  did  not  know  what  was  best  to  do  with  it ; 
that  if  it  would  be  of  any  use  to  the  undersigned,  in  carrying  on  his  institutions,  he 
had  rather  it  were  in  his  hands  than  any  where  else ;  that  he  only  wanted  customary 
security.  The  undersigned  hesitated,  but  received  it."  When  in  truth  and  fact,  said 
George  Washington  Doane  was  not  the  bearer  of  said  money  to  said  Stubbs,  as  above 
stated,  and  said  Stubbs  did  not  say  "  he  only  wanted  customary  security,"  but  loaned 
the  money  on  condition  that  said  George  Washington  Doane  would  give  him  '^proper 
Mcurity." 

By  all  which  false  allegations,  said  George  Washington  Doane  has  added  the  guilt 
of  falsehood,  attested  by  very  solemn  asseveration,  to  the  other  immoralities  laid  above 
to  his  charge. 

Specification  31st. 
In  this 

That  George  Washington  Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  has  during  his  Episcopate, 
and  especially  during  the  years  1845,  1846,  1847,  1848,  1849,  1850,  1851  and  1852, 
been  repeatedly  guilty  of  using  spirituous  and  intoxicating  liquors  to  a  degree  and  in  a 
manner  unbecoming  in  a  Bishop. 

That  on  or  about  the  month  of  November,  in  the  year  1851,  the  said  George 
Washington  Doane  was  intoxicated  on  board  the  steamboat  Trenton,  plying  between 
Philadelphia  and  Burlington. 

That  at  various  times  during  the'  years  1846,  1847,  1848  and  1849,  said  George 
Washington  Doane  was  in  the  habit,  when  on  visits  to  the  house  of  Joseph  Deacon, 
for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  indorsements,  or  rather  assistance  in  his  pecuniary  transac- 
tions, of  calling  for  eider  brandy,  or  other  intoxicating  liquor,  and  drinking  the  same  to 
a  degree  and  in  a  manner  unbecoming  in  a  Bishop,  and  tending  to  lower  the  respect  of 
the  people  for  his  said  ofHce. 

That  during  the  years  aforesaid,  said  George  Washington  Doane  was  in  the  habit 
of  providing  and  procuring  for  his  use,  larger  quantities  of  wines  and  spirituous  liquors 
in  his  house,  than  was  fit  and  becoming  in  a  Christian  Bishop,  especially  in  his  condition 
of  pecuniary  embarrassment  during  those  years. 

Wlierefore  the  undersigned,  William  Meade,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Virginia,  Charles  Pettit  Mcllvaine,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the 


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Protestant  Episcopal  Cliuicli  in  the  Diocese  of  Ohio,  and  George  Burgess,  D.  D.,  Bishop 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Maine,  do  say,  that  the  said 
George  Washington  Doane,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the 
Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  is  guilty  of  crime  and  immorality,  in  the  specifications  above 
set  forth ;  and  therefore  they  pray  that  the  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
in  the  United  States  of  America,  be  summoned  to  try  the  above  named  George  Wash- 
ington Doane,  Bishop  as  aforesaid,  on  this  Presentment,  according  to  the  canon  in  such 
case  made  and  provided. 

WILLIAM  MEADE,'  D.  D., 
Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Virginia. 
CHARLES  PETTIT  McILVAINE,  D.  D., 

Bishop  of  the  Prot.  Ep.  Church  in  Ohio. 
GEORGE  BURGESS,  D.  D., 

Bishop  of  the  Prot.  Ep.  Church  in  Maine, 
February  loth.  Eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-three, 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  and  faithful  copy  of  the  original  Pre- 
sentment in  the  case  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  George  W.  Doane,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  to  me  delivered 
by  the  three  Bishops  whose  names  are  above  appended  in  signature. 

(Signed)  THOMAS  CHURCH  BROWNELL. 

Hartford,  April,  1853. 

On  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Georgia,  it  was 
Ordei-ed^  That  the  Court  do  now  adjourn,  to  meet  to-morrow 
morning  at  ten  o'clock. 

Thereupon  the  Court  adjourned. 


^cronii  gag. 

Camden,  New  Jersey,  Septemher  2,  1853,   ) 
10  d'cloclc,  A.  M,  ) 

The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  yesterday,  with  the  addition  of  the  Bishops  of  Ken- 
tucky, Western  New  York,  and  Mississippi. 

The  Litany,  together  with  other  prayers,  was  read  by  the  Bishop 
of  Kentucky. 

The  Minutes  of  the  meeting  of  yesterday  were  read,  and,  after 
amendment,  were  approved. 

The  following  paper  was  read  by  the  Clerk  : 

"  The  undersigned  earnestly  urges,  that  the  further  proceedings 

of  this  Court  may  be  with  open  doors. 

"G.  W.  Doane, 

"  Bishop  of  New  Jersey, 
''CA.miws,Sept.  1,  1853." 


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Thereupon,  on  motion  of  the  Bisliop  of  Georgia,  it  was 

Ordered,  That  it  be  the  rule  of  this  Court  in  all  questions, 
submitted  either  by  the  Presenting  Bishops  or  the  Eespondent,  to 
hear  arguments  from  those  parties  respectively,  and  then  determine 
the  point,  the  members  of  the  Court  alone  being  present. 

The  Bishop  of  Vermont  appeared  and  took  his  seat. 

The  Presenting  Bishops  and  the  Eespondent  having  retired, 
the  Bishop  of  Maryland  offered  the  following  order  : 

Ordered,  That  the  petition  of  the  Eespondent  be  granted. 

The  Ayes  and  Nays  being  called  for,  the  order  was  rejected  by 
the  following  vote : 

Ayes :  The  Bishops  of  Wisconsin  and  Iowa,  Michigan,  Western 
New  York,  Maryland,  Indiana,  and  Provisional  of  New  York — 6. 

Nays :  The  Bishops  of  Connecticut,  Vermont,  Kentucky, 
Tennessee,  Louisiana,  Georgia,  Delaware,  Assistant  of  Virginia, 
Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  Missionary  for  the  Southwest, 
Pennsylvania,  Mississippi,  Florida,  and  Assistant  of  Connecticut — 15. 

On  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Maryland,  it  was 

1.  Ordered,  That  no  member  of  the  Court  shall  make  more 
than  one  argument  or  statement  of  views  on  any  question,  except 
by  permission  of  the  Court. 

2.  Ordered,  That  in  deciding  all  questions  before  the  Court, 
the  opinion  of  the  members  shall  be  given  in  the  order  of  seniority, 
after  the  President  shall  have  given  his  opinion. 

The  Bishop  of  Michigan  offered  the  following  order : 

Ordered,  That  when  not  otherwise  specially  directed,  the 
decisions  of  this  Court,  when  made,  be  simply  recorded  as  its  acts. 

The  Ayes  and  Nays  being  called  for,  the  order  was  rejected  by 
the  following  vote : 

Ayes :  The  Bishops  of  Connecticut,  Tennessee,  Wisconsin  and 
Iowa,  Michigan,  Georgia,  New  Hampshire,  Florida,  and  Provisional 
of  New  York— 8. 

Nays:  The  Bishops  of  Vermont,  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Western 
New  York,  Maryland,  Delaware,  Assistant  of  Virginia,  Massachu- 


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setts,  Missionary  for  the  Southwest,  Pennsylvania,  Indiana,  Mis- 
sissippi, and  Assistant  of  Connecticat — 13. 

The  Presenting  Bishops,  and  the  Eespondent,  having  been 
recalled,  the  Bishop  Eespondent,  by  permission  of  the  Court,  read 
the  following  communication : 

"  Camden,  1  September,  1853. 

"  To  the  Bishop  presiding  in  the  Court  assembled  upon  the  third  Pre- 
sentment of  Bishop  Doane: 
"  Rt.  Rev.  and  Dear  Sir  : — 

"  The  Convention  of  New  Jersey,  held  in  May  last,  appointed  a 
Committee  to  submit  to  you  the  testimony  taken  in  relation  to  the 
charges  against  Bishop  Doane,  which  had  not  yet  been  examined, 
when  you  were  assembled  in  October  last;  and  to  protest  in  the 
name  of  the  Convention  against  any  further  action  under  the  third 
Presentment,  and  to  take  such  measures  in  the  premises  as  their 
wisdom  and  discretion  may  suggest. 

"  That  Committee  are  in  waiting,  and  desire  to  be  heard  before 
any  action  shall  be  taken  in  this  matter. 

"  The  diocese,  as  a  party  interested,  claims  that  she  is  entitled  to 
be  heard.  The  diocese  of  the  Bishop  who  has  been  accused  of 
immorality  is  at  the  door. 

(Signed)  "Samuel  L.  Southard, 

"  Ghairvian. 
"  By  order  of  the  Committee." 

The  Bishop  Respondent  then  laid  before  the  Court  the  following 
preambles  and  motions : 

Whereas,  the  specifications  in  the  Presentment  now  read,  relate 
substantially  the  same  allegations  contained  in  a  Presentment  already 
tried  by  a  Court  of  Bishops,  assembled  in  Camden  and  Burlington, 
from  the  7th  to  the  15th  of  October,  in  1852  ;  And  whereas,  the 
Court  so  assembled,  did  dispose  of  the  Presentment  then  before  it 
by  two  Orders  and  Decrees,  to  wit : 

"  Whereas^  Previous  to  the  making  of  this  Presentment  now 
before  the  Court,  the  Convention  of  New  Jersey  had  investigated 
most  of  the  matters  contained  therein,  and  had  determined  that 
there  was  no  ground  for  Presentment,  therefore, 

"  Ordered,  That  as  to  the  matters  thus  acted  upon  by  said  Con- 
vention, this  Court  is  not  called  upon  to  proceed  further. 


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"  Whereas,  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  stands  pledged  to  investi- 
gate any  charges  against  its  Bishop  that  may  be  presented  from  any 
responsible  source;  And  ivhereas,  a  Special  Convention  has  been 
called,  shortly  to  meet,  in  reference  to  the  new  matters  contained 
in  the  Presentment  now  before  this  Court,  therefore, 

"  Ordered,  That  this  Court,  relying  upon  the  said  pledge,  do  not 
now  proceed  to  any  further  action  in  the  premises," 

And  ivhereas,  Persons  professing  to  be  a  Committee  of  the 
Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  ask  leave  to  present  a 
statement  relative  to  action  of  said  Convention  in  the  matter  of  the 
said  Orders  and  Decrees, 

Ordered,  That  this  Court  will  now  hear  the  statement  so  offered. 

Whereas,  A  Court  of  the  Bishops  of  this  Church  was  duly  con- 
vened at  Camden,  in  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  on  the  seventh 
day  of  October,  A.  d.  1852,  under  the  provisions  of  the  Third 
Canon  of  1844,  in  order  to  the  trial  of  the  Kt.  Kev.  G.  "W.  Doane, 
the  Bishop  of  that  Diocese,  upon  a  certain  Presentment  made  by 
the  Bishops  of  Virginia,  Ohio,  and  Maine ;  And  whereas,  the  said 
Court,  on  the  15th  day  of  the  same  month,  after  full  consideration, 
ordered  and  decreed,  that  so  far  as  regarded  certain  matters  in  said 
Presentment,  which  had  theretofore  been  investigated  by  the  Con- 
vention of  New  Jersey,  and  had  by  that  Body  been  pronounced 
groundless,  the  said  Court  was  not  called  upon  to  proceed  further 
in  the  matter  of  the  said  trial.  And  that  as  to  the  other  matters 
contained  in  said  Presentment,  the  said  Court,  relying  upon  the 
pledge  before  given  them  by  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  to  inves- 
tigate the  same, 

Resolved,  At  that  time  not  to  proceed  to  any  further  action  in 
the  premises. 

And  luhereas,  Since  the  adjournment  sine  die  of  said  Court, 
the  Convention  of  New  Jersey,  in  reliance  upon  the  action  of  said 
Court,  and  with  its  full  sanction,  thus  solemnly  and  publicly  given, 
did  proceed  to  investigate  the  said  new  matters,  and  did  resolve, 
that  such  investigation  fully  exculpated  the  Bishop  of  that  Diocese 
from  any  charge  of  crime  or  immorality  made  against  him  ; 

And  ivhereas,  The  Presentment  now  before  this  Court,  pre- 
ferred by  the  said  Bishops  of  Virginia,  Ohio,  and  Maine,  is  substan- 
tially for  the  same  subject  matter,  and  for  the  same  causes  of 


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complaint,  as  those  contained  in  the  Presentment  upon  wliicli  the 
said  Court  acted  as  aforesaid,  on  the  15th  day  of  October  last,  there- 
fore, 

Ordered^  That  this  Court  will  not  proceed  to  any  further  action 
in  reference  to  said  Presentment,  and  that  the  same  be  dismissed. 

Whereupon,  on  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Georgia,  it  was 

Ordered,  That  the  preambles  and  motions  of  the  Bishop  of  New 
Jersey  be  printed  by  the  Clerk,  for  the  use  of  the  members  of  the 
Court,  and  of  the  Presenting  Bishops  and  the  Eespondent. 

Ordered,  That  the  Court  do  now  adjourn  until  to-morrow 
morning  at  10  o'clock. 

Whereupon  the  Court  adjourned. 


%\[\X)i  gag. 

Damdei 

10  o'clock,  A.  M. 


Camden,  September  3.  1853.  \ 


The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  yesterday,  except  the  Bishop  of  Vermont,  and  the 
Provisional  Bishop  of  New  York. 

The  Litany,  with  other  prayers,  was  read  by  the  Bishop  of 
Tennessee. 

The  Minutes  of  yesterday's  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
On  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  it  was 

Ordered^  That  the  doorkeeper  of  the  Court,  under  instructions 
from  the  President,  enforce  the  privacy  of  the  Court. 

The  Bishop  of  Vermont  appeared  and  took  his  seat. 

The  Bishop  Eespondent  then  brought  before  the  Court  the 
preambles  and  order  following: 

Whereas,  The  specifications  in  the  Presentment  now  read, 
relate  substantially  the  same  allegations  contained  in  a  Presentment 
laid  before  a  Court  of  Bishops,  assembled  in  Camden  and  Burling- 
ton, from  the  7th  to  the  loth  of  October,  in  1852  ;  And  whereas, 
the  Court  so  assembled,  did  make  the  two  following  orders  and 
decrees,  to  wit : 


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"  Whereas,  Previous  to  tlie  making  of  this  Presentment  now 
before  the  Court,  the  Convention  of  New  Jersey  had  investigated 
most  of  the  matters  contained  therein,  and  had  determined  that 
there  was  no  ground  for  Presentment,  therefore, 

"  Ordered,  That  as  to  the  matters  thus  acted  upon  by  said  Con- 
vention, this  Court  is  not  called  upon  to  proceed  further. 

"  Whereas,  The  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  stands  pledged  to  in- 
vestigate any  charges  against  its  Bishop  that  may  be  presented  from 
any  responsible  source ;  And  whereas^  A  Special  Convention  has 
been  called,  shortly  to  meet,  in  reference  to  the  new  matters  con- 
tained in  the  Presentment  now  before  this  Court,  therefore, 

"  Ordered^  That  this  Court,  relying  upon  the  said  pledge,  do  not 
now  proceed  to  any  farther  action  in  the  premises." 

Ayid  lohereas,  Persons  professing  to  be  a  Committee  of  the 
Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey,  ask  leave  to  present  a 
statement  relative  to  action  of  said  Convention  in  the  matter  of  the 
said  orders  and  decrees. 

Ordered^  That  this  Court  will  now  hear  the  statement  so  offered. 

The  Bishop  Respondent,  and  the  Presenting  Bishops,  were  res- 
pectively heard  on  these  preambles  and  this  order ;  pending  which 
hearing,  in  order  to  give  the  Bishop  Respondent  time  to  consider 
an  authority  cited  by  the  presenting  Bishops,  it  was 

Ordered,  That  this  Court  do  now  adjourn  till  Monday  morning 
next  at  ten  o'clock. 

Whereupon  the  Court  adjourned. 


Camden,  Septeniber  5,  1853.) 
10  o'clock^  A.  M.  J 

The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment.  Present  as  yesterday, 
with  the  exception  of  the  Bishops  of  Vermont  and  Michigan,  and 
the  addition  of  the  Provisional  Bishop  of  New  York. 

The  Litany,  together  with  other  prayers,  was  read  by  the  Bishop 
of  Wisconsin  and  Iowa. 

The  Minutes  of  yesterday's  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 


(    31    ) 

The  Bishop  Respondent  proceeded  with  his  concluding  argu- 
ment on  the  preambles  and  order-,  pending  which  the  Bishop  of 
Michigan  appeared  and  took  his  seat. 

The  Bishop  of  Vermont  appeared,  and  took  his  seat. 

The  Presenting  Bishops  and  the  Respondent  having  retired,  the 
Court  took  a  recess. 


The  Court  met. 

The  Ayes  and  Nays  being  called  on  the  order  moved  by  the 
Bishop  Respondent,  it  was  rejected  by  the  following  vote : 

AT/es:  The  Bishops  of  Wisconsin  and  Iowa,  Michigan,  Western 
New  York,  Maryland,  New  Hampshire,  Indiana,  Mississippi,  Flo- 
rida, and  Provisional  of  New  York — 9. 

jVafjs :  The  Bishops  of  Connecticut,  Vermont,  Kentucky, 
Tennessee,  Louisiana,  Georgia,  Delaware,  Assistant  of  Virginia, 
Massachusetts,  Missionary  for  the  Southwest,  Pennsylvania,  and 
Assistant  of  Connecticut — 12. 

"  The  undersigned  having,  at  the  instance  of  the  other  members 
of  the  Court,  relinquished  to  the  Respondent  the  presentation  of 
the  order  now  refused  by  the  Court,  desires  to  put  on  record  his 
dissent  from  such  refusal,  for  the  following  reasons : 

"Because  the  Court  of  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  United  States,  now  re-convened  for  the  consideration 
of  the  case  of  the  Respondent,  has  already  admitted  the  Diocese  of 
New  Jersey  to  make  a  statement  of  its  interest  and  action  in  the 
case,  in  the  manner  contemplated  by  the  order  now  refused : 

"  Because  there  is  no  court  of  appeal,  known  to  the  Church  in 
this  country,  competent  to  reverse  the  action  of  the  said  Court : 

"Because  the  refusal  of  the  order  now  offered  is  a  reversal  of 
such  action : 

"  Because  such  reversal  is  in  part  effected  by  the  voice  of  mem- 
bers of  the  Court,  whose  absence  from  its  session  in  October  pre- 
cludes them  from  the  right  of  raising  for  renewed  consideration 
points  then  actually  determined : 

"  Because  such  re-consideration  and  reversal,  so  brought  about, 
amounts  to  the  constitution  of  non-attending  members  of  the  Court 
in  October  last,  a  minority  of  the  members  of  its  present  session, 
into  a  court  of  appeal : 


(    32     ) 

"And  because,  for  reasons  presented  to  the  Court  in  October  last, 
and  ttien  duly  weighed,  he  believes  it  to  be  within  the  province  of 
the  Court,  and,  in  consideration  of  the  broadest  principles  of 
justice,  as  well  as  of  the  highest  law  of  Christian  communion,  love 
and  courtesy,  the  duty  of  the  Court,  to  grant  the  request  denied  by 
the  refusal  of  this  order, 

"William  Eollinson  Whittingham, 

"  Bishop  of  Maryland." 

The  Bishop  of  Connecticut  moved  the  following  order : 

Ordered,  That  this  Court  will  now  hear,  through  the  Bishop 
Respondent,  the  statement  offered  by  the  Committee  of  the  Con- 
vention of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey, 

On  motion,  it  was 

Ordered,  That  this  Court  do  now  adjourn  till  to-morrow  morn- 
ing at  10  o'clock. 

Whereupon  the  Court  adjourned. 


liftl]  Jag. 

Camden,  September  6,  1853. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  yesterday,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bishop  of 
Michigan,  who  was  absent. 

The  Litany,  together  with  other  prayers,  was  read  by  the  Bishop 
of  Louisiana. 

The  Minutes  of  yesterday's  proceedings  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  Bishop  of  Connecticut  asked  permission  to  withdraw  his 
motion  for  an  order,  as  entered  upon  the  Minutes  of  yesterday, 
which  permission  was,  on  motion,  unanimously  granted. 

The  Assistant  Bishop  of  Virginia  moved  the  following  order : 

Ordered,  That  this  Court  distinctly  recognize  the  right  of  the 
Bishop  of  New  Jersey  to  introduce  the  proceedings  of  his  Diocese, 
in  reference  to  the  Presentment  of  1852,  at  any  period  agreeable 
to  himself 


(    33     ) 

The  Ayes  and  Nays  being  called  for,  the  motion  was  lost  by  the 
following  vote : 

Ayes:  The  Bishops  of  Connecticut,  Wisconsin,  Western  New 
York,  Maryland,  Assistant  of  Virginia,  New  Hampshire,  Indiana, 
Mississippi,  Florida,  and  Provisional  Bishop  of  New  York — 10. 

Nays:  Bishops  of  Vermont,  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Louisiana, 
Georgia,  Delaware,  Massachusetts,  Missionary  Bishop  of  the  South- 
west, Pennsylvania,  and  Assistant  of  Connecticut — 10. 

The  Bishop  of  Georgia  then  moved  the  following  order : 
Ordered^  That  at  this,  or  any  subsequent  stage  of  the  proceed- 
ings which  he  may  elect,  the  Court  will  cheerfully  hear  from  the 
Respondent  the  results  of  the  investigation  which  the  Convention 
of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  caused  to  be  made  into  the  charges 
contained  in  a  Presentment  made  by  the  Bishops  of  Virginia,  Ohio, 
and  Maine,  on  the  22d  of  July,  1852. 
This  order  was  unanimously  adopted. 

The  Respondent  and  the  Presenters  then  appeared  and  took 
their  places. 

The  proceedings  having  been  read,  the  Respondent  proposed 
the  following  question : 

Is  it  the  meaning  of  the  order  adopted  by  the  Court  of  Bishops, 
on  the  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  Georgia,  that  the  Respondent  may 
now  present  to  the  Court  the  paper  prepared  by  the  Committee  of 
the  Diocese,  with  the  testimony  and  acts  of  the  Convention  of  New 
Jersey,  the  testimony  and  acts  of  the  Convention  to  be  received  and 
entered  onfthe  journal? 

Whereupon  the  Respondent  and  the  Presenters  retired,  and  the 
Court  took  the  question  into  consideration. 

After  discussion  the  Court  adopted  the  following  order,  the 
Bishops  of  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Delaware,  and  Massa- 
chusetts, dissenting. 

Ordered,  That  the  Court  will  hear  the  Respondent  read  any 
paper  prepared  by  the  Committee  of  the  Convention  of  New 
Jersey,  and  will  receive  the  testimony  and  acts  of  the  said  Conven- 
tion, and  enter  said  testimony  and  acts  upon  the  Journal. 

The  Respondent  and  Presenters  having  returned  into  Court, 
the  order  first  passed  was  read,  and  the  Court  adjourned  to  meet 
to-morrow  morning  at  10  o'clock. 
3 


(    34    ) 

^ui\  Jag. 

Camden,  September  7,  1853. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  yesterday,  with  the  addition  of  the  Bishop  of  Michi- 
gan, who  appeared  and  took  his  seat ;  the  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania 
being  absent. 

The  Litany,  with  other  prayers,  was  read  by  the  Bishop  of 
Georgia, 

The  Minutes  of  yesterday  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Bishop  of  Michigan  asked  and  obtained  permission  of  the 
Court  to  enter  upon  the  Minutes  the  statement  that  he  was  absent 
yesterday  in  consequence  of  illness,  and  that  had  he  been  present, 
he  should  have  voted  in  the  affirmative  upon  the  order  moved  by 
the  Assistant  Bishop  of  Virginia. 

The  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania  appeared  and  took  his  seat. 

The  Presenting  Bishops  offered  the  following  motion : — 

The  Presenting  Bishops  not  having  had  the  opportunity  of  ob- 
jecting yesterday  to  so  much  of  the  order  passed  in  reply  to  a 
question  from  the  Responding  Bishop,  as  allows  the  Respondent  to 
present  the  affidavits  of  witnesses  examined  by  the  Committees  of 
the  Convention  of  New  Jersey,  relative  to  the  charges  in  the  for- 
mer Presentment  against  him,  and  permits  the  same  to  be  entered 
on  the  journal,  move  the  Court  to  rescind  that  portion  of  the 
said  order. 

The  Respondent  and  the  Presenters  having  retired,  the  Court 
took  into  consideration  the  motion  submitted  by  the  Presenters. 

The  question  upon  granting  the  motion  was  decided  in  the 
negative  by  the  following  vote : — 

Ayes:  The  Bishops  of  Vermont,  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Loui- 
siana, Delaware,  Massachusetts,  and  Pennsylvania — 7. 

Nays:  The  Bishops  of  Connecticut,  Wisconsin,  Michigan, 
Western  New  York,  Maryland,  Georgia,  Assistant  of  Virginia, 
New  Hampshire,  Missionary  Bishop  of  the  Southwest,  Indiana, 
Mississippi,  Florida,  Assistant  of  Connecticut,  and  Pro-Bishop  of 
New  York— 14. 


<    35    ) 

The  Bishop  of  Georgia  proposed  the  following  order: — 

Ordered,  That  in  refusing  to  rescind  the  order  passed  yester- 
day, the  Court  refuses,  because  it  is  willing  that  the  Eesponding 
Bishop  should  have  all  the  advantage  which  he  can  derive  from  the 
proceedings  of  his  Convention,  at  the  same  time  distinctly  declar- 
ing that  by  this  action,  it  does  not  recognise  any  right  in  the  Con- 
vention of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  to  appear  as  a  party  before 
this  Court 

Which  order  was  adopted,  the  Bishops  of  Wisconsin,  Michigan, 
Western  New  York,  and  Mississippi,  voting  in  the  negative. 

The  Eespondent  and  the  Presenters  then  appeared  and  took 
their  places. 

The  Eespondent  then  read  a  paper  addressed  by  the  Committee 
representing  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  to  the  Bishops  assembled 
upon  the  presentment  of  the  Bishop  of  New  Jersey,  and  also  a 
letter  addressed  to  the  Bishops,  and  signed  Samuel  L.  Southard, 
Chairman. 

The  Eespondent  moved,  that  these  papers  be  entered  upon  the 
Minutes. 

The  Eespondent  and  the  Presenters  then  retired,  and  the  Court 
proceeded  to  discuss  this  motion.  Pending  the  discussion  the  Court 
adjourned  till  to-morrow. 


%t\im\\  Jag, 

Camden,  September  8,  1853, 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  yesterday,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bishop  of  Ver- 
mont. 

The  Litany  and  other  prayers  were  read  by  the  Bishop  of  Dela- 
ware. 

The  Minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Bishop  of  Vermont  appeared  and  took  his  seat. 

The  motion  of  the  Eespondent,  that  the  paper  read  by  him  yes- 
terday from  the  Committee  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  be  entered 


(    36    ) 

npon  the  Minutes,  vv^as  called  up,  and  was  refused  by  the  following 
vote. 

Ayes: — The  Bishops  of  Wisconsin,  Michigan,  Western  New 
York,  Maryland,  New  Hampshire,  Indiana,  Mississippi,  Florida,  and 
Provisional  Bishop  of  New  York — 9. 

Nays : — The  Bishops  of  Connecticut,  Vermont,  Kentucky,  Ten- 
nessee, Louisiana,  Georgia,  Delaware,  Assistant  of  Virginia,  Massa- 
chusetts, Missionary  Bishop  of  the  Southwest,  Pennsylvania,  and 
Assistant  of  Virginia — 12. 

The  Eespondent  moved  the  following  order : — 

Ordered,  That  the  Senior  Bishop  be  requested  to  state  to  this 
Court  whether  the  originals  of  the  first  and  "second  Presentments 
are  in  his  possession,  and  if  so,  that  they  be  now  produced  ;  if  not, 
whether  they  have  been  withdrawn  from  the  files  of  this  Court,  and 
if  so,  when,  and  by  whom. 

The  Eespondent  and  the  Presenters  having  retired,  after  discus- 
sion, the  Court  refused  the  motion  of  the  Respondent,  as  follows : — 

The  Court  refuses  the  motion,  because  it  is  not  a  Court  of 
Record,  and  because  the  Respondent  has  the  printed  record  of  the 
Court  in  October  last,  which  this  Court  is  ready  to  admit  in  evi- 
dence. 

The  Respondent  asking  time  to  consider  this  refusal,  the  Court 
adjourned  to  meet  to-morrow  at  ten  o'clock. 


Camden,  September  9, 1863. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  yesterday,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bishops  of  Lou- 
isiana, Western  New  York,  Georgia,  Pennsylvania,  and  Indiana. 

The  Litany  and  other  prayers  were  read  by  the  Assistant  Bishop 
of  Virginia. 

The  Minutes. of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Presiding  Bishop  stated  that  he  had  this  morning  received 


(    37    ) 

a  communication  from  the  Bishop  of  Missouri  informing  him  that 
he  was  detained  from  attendance  upon  Court  in  consequence  of 
illness. 

Ordered,  That  this  statement  be  entered  upon  the  Minutes. 

The  Bishops  of  Louisiana,  "Western  New  York,  Georgia,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  Indiana,  appeared  and  took  their  seats. 

The  Respondent  delivered  his  argument  upon  the  proposed 
order,  that  this  Court  will  not  proceed  to  any  further  action  in 
reference  to  said  Presentment,  and  that  the  same  be  dismissed. 

Uj[X)n  the  conclusion  of  the  argument  of  the  Respondent,  the 
Court  took  a  recess  of  half  an  hour. 

Two  o'clock. 
The  Court  then  re-assembled. 

The  Bishop  of  Ohio,  on  the  part  of  the  Presenters,  then  com- 
menced his  argument  against  the  motion  of  the  Respondent. 

On  conclusion  of  the  first  head,  the  Court  adjourned  to  meet  to- 
morrow at  10  o'clock. 


Wk  Sag. 

Camden,  September  10,  1853. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment 

Present  as  yesterday,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bishops  of 
Vermont,  Georgia,  Assistant  of  Virginia,  and  Pennsylvania. 

The  Litany  and  other  prayers  were  read  by  the  Bishop  of  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Bishops  of  Vermont,  Georgia,  Assistant  of  Virginia,  and 
Pennsylvania,  appeared  and  took  their  seats. 

The  Bishop  of  Ohio  resumed  and  finished  his  argument,  at  the 
termination  of  which  the  Court  took  a  recess  for  half  an  hour. 

Twc  o'clock. 

The  Court  renewed  its  session. 


(    38    ) 

The  Bishop  of  Maine,  on  the  part  of  the  Presenters,  addressed 
the  Court  in  explanation  of  the  letter  sent  to  the  Eespondent  by  the 
Presenting  Bishops, 

The  Court  then  adjourned  till  Monday. 


%t\\i\  Sag, 

Camden,  September  12,  ISSS'. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  at  the  last  meeting,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bishops 
of  Vermont,  Kentucky,  Michigan,  Maryland,  Georgia,  Assistant  of 
Virginia,  and  Pennsylvania. 

The  Litany  and  other  prayers  were  read  by  the  Bishop  of  New 
Hampshire. 

The  Minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

A  communication  was  received  from  the  Assistant  Bishop  of 
Yirginia,  stating  that  he  was  detained  from  Court  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  physician. 

A  letter  was  also  read  from  the  Bishop  of  Alabama,  stating 
that  his  absence  was  occasioned  by  circumstances  beyond  his  con- 
trol, and  from  no  want  of  respect  to  the  Court,  or  indifference  to 
the  important  cause  upon  which  it  is  assembled. 

The  Bishops  of  Vermont,  Kentucky,  Georgia,  and  Pennsylvania, 
appeared  and  took  their  seats. 

The  Eespondent  commenced  his  reply  to  the  argument  of  the 
Bishop  of  Ohio  on  the  part  of  the  Presenters, 

During  this  argument,  the  Bishop  of  Maryland  appeared  and 
took  his  seat. 

A  communication  was  received  from  the  Bishop  of  Michigan^ 
stating  that  he  was  too  unwell  to  leave  his  bed. 

The  Eespondent  having  finished  his  reply,  the  Eespondent  with 
the  Presenters  retired. 

The  Court  here  took  a  recess. 

After  the  recess  the  Court  adjourned  to  meet  to-morrow  at  10 
o'clock^ 


(    39    ) 

(^kknt^  Jag. 

Camden,  September  13.  1853. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  at  the  last  meeting,  with  the  exception  of  the  Bishop 
of  Michigan  and  the  Assistant  Bishop  of  Virginia,  who  were  still 
detained  from  Court  by  illness. 

The  Litany  and  other  prayers  were  read  by  the  Bishop  of 
Western  New  York. 

The  Minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania  moved  the  following  order : 

Ordered,  That  Bishops  Brownell,  Otey,  Polk,  Elliott,  Freeman, 
Williams,  Wainwright,  (being  the  Bishops  who  were  not  members 
of  the  Court  assembled  in  October  last  for  the  trial  of  Bishop  Doane) 
be  a  committee  to  confer  with  impartial  counsel  learned  in  the  law 
how  far  the  action  of  the  Court  then  held  ought  to  influence  and 
control  our  present  decisions,  and  also  to-confer  with  the  Presenting 
Bishops  and  Respondent,  to  ascertain  whether  they  cannot  come  to 
some  understanding  which  shall  be  mutually  satisfactory  and  also 
fully  answer  the  purposes  of  justice.  And  that,  in  order  to  give 
them  opportunity  to  discharge  this  duty  and  prepare  a  report,  this 
Court  does  now  adjourn  to  meet  in  this  place  on  Thursday  next 
at  11  o'clock. 

Pending  the  discussion  upon  this  order,  the  Bishop  of  Michigan 
and  the  Assistant  Bishop  of  Virginia  appeared  and  took  their  seats. 

The  order  proposed  by  the  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania  was  unani- 
mously adopted. 

The  Court  then  adjourned  to  meet  on  Thursday  at  11  o'clock.   • 


%Mit\  gag. 

Camden,  September  15,  1858. 
The  Court  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Present  as  at   the   last   meeting,  with   the   exception  of  the 
Bishops  of  Vermont,  Michigan,  and  the  Assistant  of  Virginia. 


(    40    ) 

The  Litany  tiud  other  prayers  were  read  by  the  Bishop  of 
Mississippi. 

The  Minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Bishops  of  Vermont,  Michigan,  and  the  Assistant  of  Vir- 
ginia, appeared  and  took  their  seats. 

The  Committee  appointed  at  the  last  meeting  of  the  Court 
presented  the  following  report,  which  was  read  by  the  Bishop  of 
Georgia. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  confer  with  the  Presenting  Bishops 
and  Respondent,  to  ascertain  whether  they  cannot  come  to  some 
understanding  which  shall  be  mutually  satisfactory,  and  also  fully 
answer  the  purposes  of  justice,  beg  leave  to  report,  that  upon  con- 
sultation with  the  Presenting  Bishops,  they  found  that  no  under- 
standing could  be  come  to  of  the  sort  contemplated  in  the  order  of 
the  Court,  the  Presenting  Bishops  feeling  themselves  unable  to 
withdraw  their  Presentment  under  any  such  acknowledgment  of 
error  as  the  Respondent  would  be  willing  to  make.  The  Committee 
then  conferred  with  the  Respondent,  who  expressed  himself  quite 
ready  to  acknowledge,  as  he  had  already  done  to  some  extent  in 
open  Court,  such  error  as  his  conscience  accused  him  of,  the  result 
of  which  conference  was  the  paper  embodied  in  the  preamble  and 
orders  now  submitted  as  the  basis  of  a  settlement  of  this  vexed  and 
painful  question. 

T.  C.  Brownell. 

Jas.  H.  Otey. 

Leonidas  Polk. 

Stephen  Elliott,  June. 

Geo.  W.  Freeman. 

Jno.  Williams. 

JoNA.  M.  Wainweight. 

Whereas,  Yerj  serious  embarrassments  have  been  thrown  in  the 
way  of  the  action  of  this  Court,  first  by  the  postponement  of  the 
trial  of  the  original  Presentment,  and  afterwards  by  the  decree  and 
orders  of  the  Court  of  Bishops  which  assembled  at  Camden  in  Oc- 
tober, 1852,  and  continued  its  sessions  by  adjournment  at  Burling- 
ton, to  wit : 

"  Whereupon  it  was  decreed,  that 

"  Whereas,  Previous  to  making  of  the  Presentment  now  before 


(  i1-  ) 

this  Court,  the  Convention  of  New  Jersey  had  investigated  most  of 
the  matters  contained  therein,  and  had  determined  that  there  was 
no  ground  for  Presentment,  therefore, 

"  Ordered^  That,  as  to  the  matters  thus  acted  "upon  by  said  Con- 
vention, this  Court  is  not  called  upon  to  proceed  further. 

"  l'FAere«5,  The  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  stands  pledged  to  inves- 
tigate any  charges  against  its  Bishop  that  maybe  presented  from 
any  responsible  source  ;  And  ivhereas,  a  Special  Convention  has  been 
called,  shortly  to  meet,  in  reference  to  the  new  matters  contained 
in  the  Presentment  now  before  this  Court,  therefore, 

"  Ordered,  That  this  Court,  relying  upon  the  said  pledge,  do 
not  now  proceed  to  any  further  action  in  the  premises." 

Which  decree  and  orders  have  been  pleaded  in  bar  to  the  trial 
of  the  present  Presentment. 

And  ivhereas,  The  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey  has, 
through  a  Committee  of  its  most  influential  and  honourable  laymen, 
satisfied  itself,  that,  whatever  may  have  been  the  imprudences  in 
word  and  act  of  the  Eespondent,  there  was  no  intention  of  crime  or 
immorality  on  his  part. 

And  whereas,  The  said  Convention  stands  pledged  to  investigate 
any  further  charges  which  may  be  brought  at  any  future  time,  from 
any  quarter,  against  said  Kespondent,  with  fairness  and  impar- 
tiality. 

And  whereas,  The  Diocese  of  the  Respondent  is  now  engaged  in 
raising  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  thousand  dollars 
for  the  release  from  all  embarrassment  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  Burling- 
ton College,  and  Riverside,  the  surplus  income  of  such  property, 
when  thus  released,  is  to  be  annually  applied  to  the  liquidation  of 
the  remaining  debts  of  the  Respondent. 

And  ivhereas,  The  Respondent  comes  into  Court  and  says  : 

"  The  undersigned,  in  prosecuting  his  plans  of  Christian  educa- 
tion, in  connection  with  St.  Mary's  Hall  and  Burlington  College, 
found  that  the  expenses  of  the  enterprise  greatly  exceeded  his 
calculations;  while  the  assistance  on  which  he  had  confidently 
relied,  perhaps  too  sanguinely,  fell  altogether  short  of  what  he 
deemed  his  reasonable  expectations.  In  this  condition  of  things, 
being  entirely  left  alone,  and  without  advice,-  every  step  which  he 
advanced  involved  him  more  and  more  deeply  in  pecuniary  embar- 
rassments.    In  endeavouring  to  extricate  himself  from  these  embar- 


(    42     ) 

rassments,  he  admits  that  he  made  representations  which,  at  the 
time,  he  believed  to  be  correct ;  but  many  of  which  turned  out,  in 
the  event,  to  be  erroneous.  He  was  also  led,  by  his  too  confident 
reliance  on  anticipated  aid,  to  make  promises  which  he  full}'- 
expected  to  perform ;  but  which,  experience  has  taught  him,  were 
fax  too  strongly  expressed.  He  was  also  induced,  for  the  sake  of 
obtaining  money  to  meet/ his  necessities,  to  resort  to  methods,  by 
the  payment  of  exorbitant  interest  on  loans,  which  he  did  not 
suppose  were  in  contravention  of  the  law,  and  which  common 
•usage  seemed  to  him  to  justify.  He  also,  in  entire  confidence  in 
his  ability  to  replace  them,  made  use  of  certain  trust  funds,  in  a 
way  which  he  deeply  regrets ;  and,  although  they  have  long  been 
perfectly  secured,  does  not  now  justify. 

"  The  embarrassments  here  referred  to  were  followed  by  a  long 
and  well  nigh  fatal  illness ;  which,  withdrawing  him  entirely  from 
the  business  which  he  had  carried  on  alone,  was  mainly  instru- 
mental in  the  entire  failure  in  his  pecuniary  affairs.  The  perplexity 
arising  from  this  foilure,  with  the  protracted  infirmity  which 
followed  his  sickness,  made  him  liable  to  many  errors  and  mistakes, 
which  might  easily  bear  the  appearance  of  intentional  misrepre- 
sentations. In  connection  with  the  assignment  of  his  property,  he 
set  his  name,  under  oath,  to  an  inventory  of  his  goods,  and  also  to 
a  list  of  his  debts,  which  he  believed  to  be  correct ;  an  act  which, 
he  grieves  to  find,  has  given  rise  to  an  impression  in  the  minds  of 
some  that  he  exhibited  an  insensibility  to  the  awful  sanctions  of 
the  oath  of  a  Christian  man.  But,  while  he  laments  the  impression, 
he  declares  that  his  act  was  only  done  under  legal  advice,  and  in 
the  firm  conviction  of  its  correctness. 

"  Some  time  after  his  recovery  from  the  illness  above  alluded 
to,  but  while  he  was  still  in  the  midst  of  his  perplexities,  smarting 
under  his  heavy  disappointments,  and  wounded  by  the  imputations 
to  which,  in  some  quarters,  he  was  subjected,  the  letter  of  the 
three  Bishops  came  to  him.  He  has  no  disposition  to  ascribe  to 
them  any  other  than  just  and  proper  motives  in  thus  addressing 
him.  But,  at  the  time  when  he  received  the  communication,  he 
viewed  it  otherwise;  and,  under  the  strong  excitement  of  the 
moment,  penned  a  pamphlet,  parts  of  which  he  does  not  now 
justify  ;  and  expressions  in  which,  in  regard  to  those  brethren,  he 
deeply  regrets. 

"  In  reference  to  his  indebtedness,  he  now  renews  the  declara- 
tion of  intention  which  he  has  constantly  made,  and  has  acted  on, 


(    43     ) 

to  the  utmost  of  his  ability,  thus  far,  to  devote  his  means,  efforts, 
an(^  influence,  in  dependence  on  God's  blessing,  to  the  payment, 
principal  and  interest,  of  every  just  demand  against  him  —  an 
expectation  which  there  is  reasonable  hope  of  having  fulfilled, 
since  a  committee  of  the  trustees  and  friends  of  Burlington  Col- 
lege, by  whom  both  institutions  are  now  carried  on,  have  under- 
taken an  enterprise,  which  is  nearly  accomplished,  to  discharge  the 
whole  mortgage  debt ;  and  thus  secure  the  property  at  Eiverside 
and  St.  Mary's  Hall,  with  that  of  Burlington  College,  to  the  Church 
for  ever,  for  the  purposes  of  Christian  education.  And  this  done, 
the  trustees  have  further  agreed  to  appropriate,  during  his  life, 
the  surplus  income  of  both  institutions  to  the  liquidation  of  all  his 
other  debts  incurred  by  him  in  carrying  on  said  institutions. 

"  That,  in  the  course  of  all  these  transactions,  human  infirmity 
may  have  led  him  into  many  errors,  he  deeply  feels.  He  does  not 
wish  to  justify  or  excuse  them.  If  scandal  to  the  Church,  or  injury 
to  the  cause  of  Christ,  have  arisen  from  them,  they  are  occasion  to 
him  of  mortification  and  regret.  For  these  things,  in  all  humility 
and  sorrow,  before  God  and  man,  he  has  always  felt  himself  liable 
to,  and  willing  to  receive,  the  friendly  reproofs  of  his  brethren  in 
Christ  Jesus,  and  especially  of  the  Bishops  of  this  Church. 

"G.   W.   DOANE, 
"Bishop  of  New  Jersey.'* 

Ordered^  Therefore,  That  the  Presentment  before  this  Court  be 
dismissed,  and  the  Kespondent  be  discharged  without  day. 

The  Committee  likewise  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  follow- 
ing orders: — 

1.  That  no  order  or  decree  of  the  Court  in  October,  1852,  or  this 
Court,  shall  be  taken  to  admit  the  right  of  any  Diocese  to  come 
between  a  Court  of  Bishops  and  the  Eesponding  Bishop,  after 
canonical  presentment  first  made  by  three  Bishops, 

2.  That  this  Court  believes  the  Presenters  to  have  acted  in  good 
faith,  and  in  the  desire  and  determination  to  carry  out  the  law  of 
this  Church  in  such  case  made  and  provided,  in  the  painful  duty 
which  they  have  felt  themselves  called  upon  to  perform. 

The  following  communication  was  received  from  the  Presenters 
and  ordered  to  be  entered  upon  the  Minutes. 

To  the  Court  of  Bishops : — 

The  Presenting  Bishops  having  been  informed  by  a  Committee 


(    4^    ) 

of  the  Court,  tliat  a  proposal  is  now  under  consideration  to  dismiss 
the  Presentment  upon  several  grounds  stated  in  a  report  of  the 
said  Committee,  the  chief  of  which  is  a  certain  acknowledgment 
on  the  part  of  the  Kespondent,  do  represent  to  the  Court  that  the 
exclusive  right  of  withdrawing  the  Presentment  is  with  the  Pre- 
senters ;  that  the  only  legal  mode  of  disposing  of  these  charges,  by 
the  Court,  is  to  try  them  by  the  evidence;  that  the  Presenters 
stand  ready  with  their  evidence  to  enter  on  the  trial  which  they 
have  contended  for ;  and  they  feel  themselves  bound  to  ask  that 
the  Court  will  call  on  the  Eespondent  to  plead  guilty  or  not  guilty 
to  the  Presentment.  With  this  statement  of  the  legal  position  of 
the  Presenters,  as  representing  the  Executive  of  the  Church  in  this 
case,  the  undersigned  are  prepared  to  abide  by  such  action  as  the 
Court  may  take  in  the  premises. 

William  Meade. 

Chas.  p.  McIlvaine. 

George  Burgess. 

Camden,  Sept.  15,  1853. 

The  question  being  taken  upon  the  acceptance  of  the  report 
of  the  Committee,  and  the  adoption  of  the  preamble  and  orders 
annexed,  the  report  was  accepted,  and  the  preamble  and  orders 
adopted  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  Court,  all  the  members  being 
present  and  voting. 

The  following  order  was  unanimously  adopted: 

Ordered  by  the  Court,  with  the  consent  of  the  Eespondent, 
That  in  making  up  the  Journal  of  the  proceedings  of  this  Court, 
the  Secretary  omit  recording  the  acts  and  proceedings  of  the  New 
Jersey  Annual  Convention  of  1853,  and  the  testimony  reported  to 
the  adjourned  Convention  in  December,  1852. 

Ordered,  That  the  Journal  of  the  proceedings  of  this  Court  be 
printed,  under  the  direction  of  the  Clerk. 

The  Court  then  resolved  to  adjourn  sine  die,  after  devotional 
exercises. 

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tion, when  the  Court  adjourned. 

(Attest)  JoNA.  M.  Wainwright, 

Prov.  Bishop  of  Neiv  York,  and  Clerk  of  the  Court. 


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ing, until  the  time  come  when  all  "  shall  be  devoutly  and  religiously  disposed  to  receive  the  most 
comfortable  Sacram«nt  of  the  Body  and  Blood  of  Christ,  in  remembrance  of  His  meritorious  death 
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dom of  heaven." 

THE  DEVOUT  COMMUNICANT,  BEING  THOSE  PARTS  OF  A  TREATISE 
on  the  Lord's  Supper,  which  are  suited  to  assist  the  Devotions  of  the  Communicant 
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suited  for  this  purpose.  He  has  also  published,  at  a  small  price,  an  abridgment  of  those  parts 
which  relate  to  the  doctrines  and  duties  of  tho  Holy  Communion,  under  the  title  of  "An  Invita- 
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Meditations  and  Prayers  proper  to  be  used  before  and  during  the  receiving  of  the  Holy 
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